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Get your seat for Dean & Tony Robbins's Event: Thrive in 2025Leave an Amazon Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!In the face of economic uncertainty, real estate mogul and entrepreneur Dean Graziosi reveals how internal work trumps external tactics when building a recession-proof future. Having navigated multiple economic downturns over his 40-year business career, Dean shares a surprising truth – most Fortune 500 companies were started during recessions when others sat paralyzed by fear. Through raw stories of his challenging childhood with an abusive father and his journey to financial freedom, Dean explains why money is like oxygen: when you lack it, it consumes your thoughts. But once you secure it, you must face the deeper work of healing. His vulnerable admission that he initially thought his pain was the source of his drive offers a powerful lesson for anyone using past trauma as fuel for success.Dean's book Millionaire Success HabitsDean's book The Underdog Advantage - Rewrite Your Future By Turning Your Disadvantages Into Your SuperpowersDean's book Be a Real Estate Millionaire: How to Build Wealth for a Lifetime in an Uncertain EconomyIn this episode you will learn:Why most Fortune 500 companies were started during economic downturns, and how to use others' hesitation as your competitive advantageHow to develop "hunger" that remains unaffected by external economic conditions or media negativityWhy money is like oxygen - when you lack it, it dominates your thinking and prevents you from living your full potentialThe powerful four-part pyramid framework for achieving goalsHow to use pain as temporary motivation while building a more sustainable "compelling future" that pulls you forwardFor more information go to https://www.lewishowes.com/1766For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you'll love:Dave Ramsey – greatness.lnk.to/1758SCAnthony O'Neal  – greatness.lnk.to/1738SCAlex Hormozi – greatness.lnk.to/1723SC Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

Leave an Amazon Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!Despite her massive success on Pretty Little Liars and millions of adoring fans, Lucy Hale spent years battling darkness and addiction while in the spotlight. After hitting rock bottom three years ago, Lucy embarked on a sobriety journey that reconnected her with the spiritual awareness she'd lost along the way. With candid honesty, she describes how fame intensified her inner struggles and recounts a pivotal spiritual awakening in Austin, Texas that changed everything. Lucy's transformation from shame-filled people-pleaser to authentic truth-seeker offers profound insights about worthiness, alignment, and the courage to disappoint others before disappointing yourself.Lucy on InstagramIn this episode you will learn:How external success and validation can mask deep internal struggles with unworthiness and shameWhy people-pleasing is actually selfish, and how it blocks authentic connection and growthThe connection between disordered eating, addiction, and the desperate search for controlHow Lucy maintains her sobriety through intentional morning routines and protecting her energyThe transformative power of trusting the timing of your life rather than trying to control everythingFor more information go to https://www.lewishowes.com/1765For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you'll love:Goldie Hawn – greatness.lnk.to/1630SCGabby Bernstein  – greatness.lnk.to/1714SCYara Shahidi – greatness.lnk.to/1699SC Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

Award-winning author, speaker, book launch strategist, and founder of the Biz Book Publishing Hub Robbie Samuels is on Thrive LouD. After Robbie's last appearance in 2020, this episode delves into Robbie's transformative journey through the pandemic, spotlighting his pivot from networking at conferences to becoming a virtual event design consultant and executive Zoom producer. Listeners will gain valuable insights into Robbie's innovative approach to book launches—specifically, the significance of garnering Amazon reviews to build a pipeline that leads prospects to lucrative offers. Don't miss Robbie's practical tips and personal anecdotes, including his own publishing triumphs and the story behind his next eagerly anticipated book, "Don't Just Hit Publish: Launch Your Book - An Entrepreneur's Guide to Reviews and Revenue." For those pondering a book launch or seeking to maximize the impact of their published work, this episode is a must-listen! Key Highlights: Robbie's career shift amidst the pandemic The power of Amazon reviews for business books Differences between publication and launching strategies The role of traditional vs. hybrid publishers Essential steps for building a book marketing pipeline Robbie's upcoming book and how it ties into his holistic strategy Follow Us:

Welcome to our Special Mix! In this episode, we're breaking down the key elements every Amazon store owner should know. If you're an eCommerce business owner looking to scale, optimize your operations, and enhance your Amazon marketplace strategies, this episode is just for you.

Join us in this exciting episode as we explore the e-commerce landscape with Will Haire, the co-founder of BellaVix. Specializing in marketplace marketing for D2C brands, Will brings over a decade of experience in boosting sales on Amazon and Walmart. Dive into his valuable insights on effective strategies, overcoming challenges, and the latest trends in e-commerce operations.

James Szubski (Shoob-skee) joins me from Washington State to talk about Sasquatch, Klickitat Ape Cat, Portals and UFO'S. James is a former volunteer Search & Rescue EMT, wildland firefighter and mountain guide. He tells us about the gorge and the paranormal activity that is reported at Margie's outdoor Store located in Bingen, Washington.   He shares his own stories and sightings of the visitors to Columbia River Gorge. Great information. Website Margiesoutdoor.com  My Angel book is out as of December 1st. please let me know how you like it. Write an Amazon Review https://shorturl.at/DrVZq      

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Send us a textJoin the Boozy Bitches as they discuss one of the craziest true crime stories they'd ever heard, the Amazon review killer.  Todd Kohlhepp is a sex offender and mass shooter, and serial killer convicted of killing seven people in South Carolina.  Although he is currently serving life without parole,  he has continued to claim to have killed many more.  To aid in his crimes, Kohlhepp bought several items on Amazon, and then left disturbing reviews about their use.  Connect with us on Instagram>>>   https://www.instagram.com/boozybanterwithfriends/For more info, visit our website>>>   https://boozybanterwithfriends.com/

Catalyst for a calling - Childhood lucid dreams, UFO sightings, and what Robert agreed to do after meeting the being who referred to himself as, "the Father" ... Did the pilot land in a parallel dimension? After spending six months on an island that wasn't on a map, he was ferried out to sea to wait for rescue as he watched the islanders and their island disappear in a flash of light. MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS OF MALIBU - Seeing is believing.. Substack Link. Robert Stanley is a world renowned researcher, author and talk show host who has traveled to more than 50 countries in pursuit of modern and ancient mysteries. His work has been featured on radio, print, television and the Internet. Multiple appearances on Coast to Coast. Link. Books are available on his website and Amazon. 1. Covert Encounters in Washington, D.C., Robert M. Stanley, Amazon. Why are UFOs routinely coming to Washington, D.C., and why is there such a vast cover up of this important subject? This book contains the most thoroughly-documented history of DC UFO encounters ever written. 2. Close Encounters on Capitol Hill, Robert M. Stanley, Amazon.  Documents over 200 eye-witness accounts of UFO incursions in DC from 1850 to 2007. For the first time, it is revealed that UFOs were sighted over DC at least 22 times in 1952. Amazon Review [brief excerpt] :"I have read many books on the subject of ET's and UFO's but none quite like this! Author Robert M. Stanley has [gone] to great effort to reference legitimate scientists, military officials and witnesses to back up his 100's of documented UFO sightings, some of which have been photographed and seen by numerous individuals." Substack: Author, Link. Down the rabbit hole: The Book of Enoch PDF FYI - Regarding the phrase, “May you live in interesting times.” Reference: attributed to an English expression that is often misattributed as an ancient Chinese curse or blessing. Link. Let's opt for the blessing. Wendy's Blog. https://talkingtonightlights.wordpress.com/ Synchronicity - Another portal encounter: CE-5 at the Darby Ranch YouTube.

Welcome to our Special Mix! In this episode, we're breaking down the key elements every Amazon store owner should know. If you're an eCommerce business owner looking to scale, optimize your operations, and enhance your Amazon marketplace strategies, this episode is just for you.

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Brad's wife, Kathryn, as well as good friend TJ Mousetis (from Walk In Love., Sunny Morrow, and all-around awesome dad) join Brad on this episode while Jake is cruising around Galveston!  Learn about Kathryn's thoughts on being labeled as “crunchy”, homeschooling, and her honest thoughts on minivans.  TJ joins to talk conspiracy theories, setting boundaries on devices for your kids, and how to make millions off of Amazon Reviews. Help give the gift of water to those in need: https://give.healingwaters.org/ghostrunners  Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com      Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y   Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P  Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's FINALLY time, the book is out, and available on Amazon!! Grab Your Copy Now- Rehab Chiro Biz Book Today, we chat about the making of the book- not necessarily the tactics, but the reason WHY Justin wrote the book and the lessons you can learn. Here is what you can learn: How doing the things you HATE can directly build confidence Why EXECUTION not information is the answer How STANDING OUT is being willing to do what nobody else will If you enjoy the episode and want to buy a copy- you can grab it HERE And sharing is caring! So if you get value from this podcast and the book please leave us a 5 star Amazon Review and post a selfie on Instagram and tag @justinrabinowitz  Here is the book link one more time!

Unlock the secrets to boosting your Amazon sales without crossing the line with product inserts as we team up with our Freedom Ticket instructors, Kevin King and Rafael Veloz of Share It Studio. This episode is your ticket to understanding how to legally and effectively use product inserts to build your brand and keep customers returning for more. Ditch the confusion and stay ahead of the competition with actionable insights and real-life examples, including Kevin and Rafael's success stories with calendar sales and customer-retaining newsletters. Prepare to transform your customer experience and drive repeat purchases with inventive strategies that resonate with your audience. We'll reveal the power of no-code apps as lead magnets, the smart use of QR codes, and how to craft calls to action that balance immediate sales with long-term loyalty. Rafael's Telly award-winning expertise shines as we navigate the nuances of customer engagement, ensuring your marketing efforts are not only effective but also compliant with Amazon's stringent policies. Wrap up with a toolkit of marketing finesse, from leveraging QR codes for product-related apps to utilizing calls to action that truly speak to your buyer persona. Whether it's offering warranties, discounts, or even prize draws, we've got you covered with legal and effective strategies that hook customers in. This episode is brimming with tactics and takeaways tailored to help you master the art of Amazon product inserts and skyrocket your e-commerce success. In episode 564 of the Serious Sellers Podcast, Bradley, Kevin, and Rafael discuss: 00:00 - How To Build An Unbreakable Brand With Product Inserts 00:59 - Advanced Amazon Product Inserts Discussion 08:57 - Leveraging Mail Leads for Calendar Sales 09:09 - Maximizing Sales Through Package Inserts 13:59 - Strategies for Amazon Product Insert Cards 18:10 - Enhancing Customer Feedback With QR Codes 26:35 - Amazon Review and QR Code Guidelines 27:15 - Prohibited Methods for Soliciting Reviews 31:02 - Generating Effective QR Codes for Customers 34:45 - Dog Treat Sample Pack Promotion 36:34 - QR Codes and Call to Actions ► Instagram: instagram.com/serioussellerspodcast ► Free Amazon Seller Chrome Extension: https://h10.me/extension ► Sign Up For Helium 10: https://h10.me/signup  (Use SSP10 To Save 10% For Life) ► Learn How To Sell on Amazon: https://h10.me/ft ► Watch The Podcasts On YouTube: youtube.com/@Helium10/videos Transcript Bradley Sutton: Is it okay to do product inserts on Amazon? If so, what can and can't you put on those? We bring on Kevin King and expert guest Rafael to answer these questions and more. How cool is that? Pretty cool, I think. Bradley Sutton: Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of the Serious Sellers Podcast by Helium 10. I'm your host, Bradley Sutton, and this is the show that's completely BS-free, unscripted and unrehearsed, organic conversation about serious strategies for serious sellers of any level in the e-commerce world, and we have our monthly special. This is called Seller's Edge, and this is actually a unique one, a new thing that we're doing, where we recorded live a module that's actually going to go mainly in the Freedom Ticket program about advanced Amazon strategy, and this one's going to be all about Amazon product inserts. There's a lot of misconceptions out there and so we brought on some people to talk a little bit about it. Now, the main core of this workshop that we did is actually in Freedom Ticket, all right. So. if you guys don't have a Freedom Ticket, any Helium 10 paying member has access to it. So, if you're a Platinum member, make sure to go into your Freedom Ticket account or your Helium 10 account and then hit Learning Hub. You can get the full details. Bradley Sutton: What we're going to have here is some clips from that training and then we're going to have a lot of the Q&A. What we did we did this live, where a lot of people were watching this training and they were giving a lot of questions like hey, what's okay to put in inserts, and can I send people to another website, and can I do this and can I do that? Kevin King got a little riled up there a little bit on some of the questions we were asking. So again, we're going to just give you some of their presentation just a little bit, and then mainly focus on the questions that you guys were answering. I'm positive. A lot of these questions are the same exact questions that you might have on inserts as well, so let's go ahead and hop into it. Kevin King: So I met today's guest Rafael around 2019, maybe 2020. But it was in 2020 where I really first got to know him. The guys over at PickFu actually came to me and said, hey, we're going to run this contest with like four different agencies and we want to feature your product. And at that time I was doing a hand sanitizer as a company called Germ Shark and I said I'm sure they said these guys are going to compete, they're going to create videos, they're going to create images, they're going to create A plus content. And then you get to go through it all, Kevin. You get to decide which one you like the best, and then it's up to you whether you want to go with them and pay them or not, if you, if you like it enough. And so, uh, Rafael's company, uh, Share It Studio was one of the winners. There was two, two companies that actually kind of came close uh, real close to each other, and one of them I liked one of their things and then them I liked the other thing, but a Share It Studio did the best job overall and they ended up creating a really a kick-ass video for us and a whole bunch of really cool content. So that's where I got to know him and you know this guy. His background wasn't necessarily an Amazon seller. He was a three-time telly, award-winning marketer and filmmaker, and then he decided to go out on his own and he saw this need in the Amazon space, where there's just not a lot of good agencies creating good, good imagery and video content. So in 2018, he founded Share It Studio and as a marketing Amazon specific marketing agency. Kevin King: Now they do a few things. It's not Amazon, but they focus on Amazon and it's they really want to set themselves apart, but not just saying, okay, we'll create some pretty pictures and we'll make some nice videos, but it's data driven. So they're actually looking at the data, looking at what it is that they actually need to do. What are the trigger points that are going to make people buy? Not just create a beautiful video that looks great, but what can they say, what can they do? What about those first three seconds? And just create a really custom, bespoke package of creative services just for Amazon sellers on the Amazon platform. They look at everything from. They do everything from PPC videos, premium A plus content, images, branding and a whole lot more, and they're really good at what they're doing so. Kevin King: Rafael is going to be coming on in just a minute and sharing us today specifically on package inserts, and before I bring him on, I want to talk about package inserts for just a second, because there's a lot of, what I believe, misinformation out there when it comes to package inserts. There's a lot of people that say you should not use package inserts on Amazon. You will hear that on Facebook groups. You will hear that from some of the people that help fight against Amazon. They say don't use package inserts, don't do it, you're putting yourself at risk. I 1000% disagree with that. 1000% disagree with that. I think there are certain things that you should not do on a package insert. Those anything you know people say well, you can't direct traffic off of Amazon. Bs, yes, you can. What you cannot do is put your package insert or your URL. If you read the terms of service carefully, Amazon says you cannot direct traffic off of Amazon, but that's on Amazon. That means that don't put your URL in your product photos. Don't put something in, don't email you know, using the customer follow-up something to take them off of Amazon. Anything on the Amazon platform in imagery or text. You cannot send them off of Amazon to do something that is against the rules. But when it comes to your package insert, all the big brands look at Sony, look at any of the big brands they have package inserts for warranty registrations, for accessories, for different things. It's totally fine in my opinion. But there is a line you have to draw and this is where a lot of people get in trouble and some people don't understand where that line is. Kevin King: You cannot do anything to influence reviews on Amazon, and that means in the old days people would say please leave us a five-star review, click here and they would take you to the review page. You can't do that. You can't put a smile and five stars. Five stars is a kind of a trademark icon of Amazon. That kind of indicates give us five stars. You can't do that. You can't say something like if you have trouble with this product, please email us. Don't contact the buyer, don't contact Amazon or contact where you bought it. If you have trouble, contact us. Otherwise, please leave us a review on Amazon. That's directing negative traffic to you, even though that's a good thing to do. You want to take care of the situation that's indirectly directing negative remarks that might have been a bad review to you. There's other ways to say that. You can say something like if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us, something like that that has no indication of. If there's a problem or there's something wrong, we want to fix it. And I understand you're trying to steer bad things away and you're trying to be good, but that can be seen as as as a negative. Or what happens a lot of times is people will have some sort of innocent package insert and then they will, they will send that and send it to a warranty page or some sort of registration page and then in the follow up sequence so everything is clean, but in the follow up sequence there's something that's a little gray or shady and that's where people get into trouble too. So but if you're doing the package inserts right, and I think you're totally fine and there is a way to do them you know I get a lot of Amazon packages and a lot of times I throw the package inserts out. Kevin King: I mean, it's one of the first things. I used to look at them to see what other people were doing. But now, obviously, I probably get 20 Amazon packages a week. I probably look at one package insert and that's what Rafael is going to show you today is some ways to make sure that that yours is the one that I'm looking at, and there's a reason that I only look at. One is because most of them suck. They're little business cards or they don't have good graphics, or they don't catch my attention or they're buried in the package in the wrong place. There's a whole number of reasons that I don't look at where there's no value to looking at it. It's just a bunch of text, or they all look the same. There's ways to stand out, and I use a package insert, and my calendar business is one example that I like to give, and what I do is I put a four by six card in there and I say congratulations, you've won a free calendar. That's what the package insert says, and what that package insert then says, because I'm selling calendars. Calendars are like selling milk they go bad. Kevin King: So right now we're in May of 2024. Most people don't want to pay full price for a 2024 calendar. The year started five months ago, so it's hard to sell them. So if I have extra calendars left over, I got to get rid of them. I can throw them away, I can donate them somewhere, I can try to liquidate them, but what I do is I use my extra calendars as a premium and so I say congratulations, you've won a free calendar. Just pay $10 shipping and handling and you can go to my website and get the URL out there and enter this code to get the calendar for $10. Or you can send a check or money order in the mail. A lot of people send checks or money orders in a physical envelope in the mail to my post office box and it works really well and I get a lot of leads that way. What do I do with those leads? The next year I've got 17,000 people on this list. The next year, when my calendars come out, calendars are pretty much bought between mid-November and mid-January. That's the big two months that most of the sales happen. You're selling 400, 500, 600 a day of some titles, but in September people aren't really thinking about 2024 like last year, so they're buying like two or three calendars a day. But that's where I use my list and I send them out. Kevin King: If I have their email, I send an email and I also send a physical postcard through the mail to them and says hey, the new calendars for 2024, or, in this case coming up 2025 are out. You can buy them directly from me and pay $9.95 shipping and handling, or you can go to Amazon, if you're a Prime member, and buy them on Amazon and get free shipping. And what does that do? It allows me to launch my product completely with no PPC, no launches, no having to do Vine reviews, no, nothing. Because people go and I have four different titles and a lot of them. They buy all four, so that gets them in the frequently bought together. And then they also buy other calendars so they might buy a motorcycle calendar or something like that. So then I start showing up on these motorcycle calendars as customers who looked at this or viewed this or those sections. And I started this flywheel going and I'm selling two or three a day in September and I just ride that wave all the way up and I do zero PPC for these calendars. I do zero launch and that's the power of a package insert. And then I can sell these guys other calendars that are not available on Amazon. Kevin King: I do it for my dog products with a dog sample packs. I do it with a lot of things, but in nowhere in there and no my emails, nowhere do I ever ask for a review? Do I ever indicate five stars? Do I ever indicate anything that's manipulating the system? It's all above board and I've been doing this for 20 years and there's nothing wrong with it. Usually, if you dig deep and someone says I got in trouble for package inserts, I didn't do anything, look deep into their package insert or into their funnel and you're probably going to see that there is something that's a little on the edge there. So if you keep your nose clean and do this right, it can be powerful. And so Rafael is going to come on right now and he's going to spend some time showing you some really cool ways to actually do package inserts. Hey Rafael, how are you doing, man? Rafael: How's it going, man? Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it. It's an honor. Kevin King: Appreciate you coming on and doing this man, this is going to be great. I'm looking forward to seeing what you got. Learn a few things myself, hopefully. Rafael: All right guys. Thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate your time. I am the Founder and CEO of Share It Studio. Actually, my background was in law. I went to law school. I did four years of law school in Venezuela and then I went to filmmaking because I hated law so that's like a really little fun fact. And then I started working and I graduated from filmmaking. I started doing filmmaking, I moved to New York, etcetera. I worked in a lot of companies CNN, Nickelodeon and then in 2018, I was working for Nickelodeon and I decided to quit because I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I wanted to get out of that rat race, which I think a lot of us maybe were there and wanted to escape. So, yeah, so let's get started. Rafael: So this is a little bit of what we do at Share It Studio. I just wanted to give you a glimpse. I'm not trying to sell you anything. I'm just trying to give you a glimpse of what we do. So we only focus on creating content. Why I feel like a jack of all trades is a master or none. We like to specialize in one thing, one thing only, and anything that has to do with visual and visually enticing or visually manipulated. You could say a little bit that buy or that conversion, so anything that has to do with videos, listings, et cetera. So what are product inserts? You can read this, I know you can, but in my own words it's a way to give the customer more experience, right, to give them more value. The more value you give, the more value you're going to get in return. So it's a powerful tool, obviously, to enhance the customer's experience. You can request feedback, you can promote your repeat purchases. It's all going to depend on the product itself. It's the same thing to have a product insert for supplements for a hand sanitizer than for a garlic press, for example. Those are consumables. You can repeat them. The garlic press, you can probably buy one when it breaks. But if it breaks too fast, it means the bad quality garlic press, right? So, depending on your product, I would say try to steer and try to analyze and strategize that product insert. Rafael: Okay, let's keep going. So do's. Some basic do's. Deliver value. This is like just a general thing in life. Let's go into newsletters. I don't read newsletters. I find newsletters actually very boring or they're all the same. But I came across and I'm trying to plug this in in any way. But I came across one a few months ago which is Kevin King's newsletter right, the Billion Dollar newsletter and there's so much value that I actually enjoy reading them. That's because it's given me value, like a bunch of value. If it wouldn't give me value, I just would discard it, archive it or read it or delete it, et cetera. So make sure you deliver value. It's the most important asset. If you do not deliver value, you're not going to get anything in return. Some ways you can deliver value additional usage guidelines, care recommendations, general insights, coupons, customer experience. There's a lot, a lot of ways. Right, make sure you maintain informativeness, meaning that you are talking about your product's advantages or attributes on the product. That's dependent on the product. Again, these are all dependent on the product that you have. It's gonna. It's not a, it's not a one. It's not a cookie cutter, it's not a cookie cutter template, it's more of a. What do I have? What fits into this mold type of situation from my point of view, at least in my experience? Rafael: Encourage reviews. You want to avoid 100% encouraging any positive reviews or avoiding getting, or encouraging avoidance of getting negative reviews. Like Kevin said at the beginning, that goes against Amazon's TOS and, just like the taxman, the Amazon man is also going to find out at some point. Okay, so I would say, steer away from that. So politely, solicit feedback from the customers. As simple as your feedback matters could help. Extend support. Again, it depends on the product, but extend support If it's maybe it's a product that it costs I don't know a hundred bucks, most likely if that product is a little bit faulty or people don't understand that because it's hard to assemble, or something you can extend support, maybe a video, maybe a hotline, maybe an email I don't know something that gives them support. Um, cross selling if your product, you can match it with other products. For example, I'm going to show you an example in a bit of a baby product. But let's say you sell in the baby category and there's a lock and you're selling a lock um securing mechanism for the door for babies, right, and you and you can also cross promote the outlet protector for babies. So you know you kill two birds with one stone. Rafael: Don'ts. Avoid soliciting positive reviews, guys. Do not do that. That's like bad, bad, bad. Referring from cherry picking reviewers, such as what Kevin said, like hey, if you're having a bad experience, you know, come back and we can help you before you leave a bad review. That's a no-no. Steer clear from external links. Like Kevin said, Amazon wants everything in their ecosystems. What I've seen recently, though, is that they send them to a landing page, but the payment processing takes them directly back to the Amazon page. So what does that mean? That means that, from the product insert, it takes you to the landing page. You gather data from there, like the pixels, the Facebook pixels well, that's not Facebook anymore, it's the Metapixel, et cetera. Now you have marketing data from there, and then it redirects them back to Amazon. I've seen that recently. Eliminate misleading information, false hesitations, exaggerated claims, deceptive details. You want to be as transparent as possible and as truthful as possible. Remember, giving value is about being real, maintaining real, and abstain from manipulation. Definitely abstain from manipulation, because that's also you're trying to cherry pick that review. Okay, and avoid interfering with packaging. This is more on your end. You don't want to have a package that's extremely hard to open because of the product insert, because it's not going to give value to the customer experience, and customer experience is everything. All right. So it's a simple thank you enough. It could be, but you know it's there's not more, so it's basically wasting your money. Rafael: So if you want to win and if you want to actually get results, you should definitely take action. So things you should include you in your insert cards. Things I would include that we've included with our clients is warranties, how to guides, how to take care of the product, benefits of our products, guidelines, but it's going to depend again on the product. I want to make sure that everybody understands that it depends on your product. But, in summary, if you want to get value, you should get value. That's a rule of thumb in life. Actually, we should all get value in life, so we can get something valuable as well. So type of products, inserts or strategies. So review hunting that's like the most basic one, right? You want to get reviews. The most reviews you get, the better. I'm gonna show you some examples afterwards. You can put up a QR code and ask for feedback. You can use jokes, for example. So you put the joke and then you put the answer. Kevin usually actually does this. He puts stump bases in the beginning of the email newsletter and then at the end, he gives you the answer. This allows him, this allows that you read through the whole thing and then you have a reward at the end, which is kind of cool. So, for example, for this one, this is plainly emotional. Hey, scan this QR code and speak your mind. That's it. I just want your feedback, and your feedback means the world to us. It's very important. You're being sincere, trying to be as sincere as possible. Rafael: This is some of the content with this. For this seller, we also did that his packaging and he inserted it. And also, you added more value. He's not in a lead generator. So if you want to watch this video, it's time to install this. Watch this video, right? So you scan this QR code. Basically, it takes you to a landing page. It asks you for your email to unlock or to send the link of the video to that email. So, right there, you're getting more information. A simple joke is cool. So what type of candy is never on time? Chocolate, you get it, I didn't know. So ChatGPT helped us with that, by the way. So, yeah, so after they peel it, okay, and then, hey, since we're here, share your experience with our candies, and then they scan your codes. You know you're asking for it. All right, this is for stickers. Rafael: And another type of strategy is free purchase marketing. So there's a couple of things you can do. You can add custom coupons and you can add also cross-selling. So a coupon is you'll we all know what well, maybe there's new or sellers. Here's coupon is just basically a way that you give them something, a discount or, yeah, a discount for the next purchase or the new purchase or something, and cross-selling or it could be even an external coupon and cross-selling is when you promote something, another product, okay, based on that product, that at least simulates or in some way it connects with the main product that they just bought. So, for example this is the example I was going to give you it's a baby clear outlet plugs, right, and the baby toilet plug. So, welcome to Parenthood. Since you bought this, we want to help you. Here's more things that you can get and you're going to get these products. You head to storefronts and you get some offers from those products. Boom, so they're buying this, but they're also, oh, these guys also sell this, because maybe when they get this through their Amazon. They're like oh, I also need this. So you're cross-promoting that seller. Okay. Rafael: So list building it's extremely important as well. As we all know, Amazon is their own ecosystem and they have the last say in everything. So, like Kevin was saying about his calendars, it doesn't matter if he sells them on Amazon or not. He has a list. So Kevin doesn't even need PPC because he has a whole list already. So that's one of the things that you should be doing list building. So it's basically just as a gift. You can create a strategy. Number one is a gift. Basically, you create a lead magnet from your website or app and you just tell the customer like hey, you want this, we need this in return, and they gave you this, which is this well, you can ask for several thousand information, email, phone number, et cetera. Or strategy to a newsletter. You know, create a newsletter with interesting content to promote, to promote it and put it in your insert card. You're giving value. For example, we have a client that he sells bonsais. I didn't know this, but bonsais are very much. It's like a culture, like there's like a thing for bonsais and people are really into it. So they read newsletters, they read articles, they see videos, they watch videos. Part of this newsletter is giving value to them, so that's how they're building their list, also through social media. Rafael: This is, for me, the best strategy up to date, which is an app. Why? it's also going to depend on the type of product you have. But why the app? Because the app you're always going to have them there. There's nothing more intimate right now, technology-wise, than the phone for a human. It literally holds our work, our life, our secrets, our laughs. Like, if you leave your house without your phone, most likely you're gonna return back home just to get your phone, because it's literally a third arm that we don't have. So by having that, you have so much access to that particular buyer. For example, this is QR an app that it's going to help you, you know, work out and it's going to give you a workout. It's a workout app, right? This is the one I'm using for to get ready to for BDSS in Hawaii soon Kev. I'm just kidding, I don't have a six pack, so this app is going to help you that and there that you can promote also other types of products. For example, I have another app which is a scale. I bought a scale and that scale helps you track your weight through the app. And through the app, sometimes I get push notifications which is hey, we just launched this product, would you like to look into it? Or hey, we saw that you're hitting your fitness goals. We have this new product that can help you reach those fitness goals, et cetera. So there, you're going to give a lot more value. And what are they doing? They're just cross promoting, they're cross selling. So that's, I mean, I think that's brilliant. Rafael: Remember, one step at a time. It's depending on your level of being a seller. If you're in stage one and you just launched your product, focus on reviews. If you want to do everything at the same time, great. But if not, if you want to take it step by step, focus on reviews, then focus on repurchase marketing and then build in a list all right, but this is a must at the end. If you want to build a brand, building a list is a must. Another thing if your package is, you don't want to create it in any way possible, like you know, maybe you don't want to destroy or interrupt this opening process you can add it to a label like the top, because you all know that it can only be a sticker, for example, every bottle or not every bottle. Most of the bottles have a seal on top right, so if they have a seal, why not put it there? They either way have to open it up, so why not put your discount or give them that value there? For example, these are supplements. Hey, next bottle you get 50% off. If I like them, I'm going to use that 50% off coupon 100%. Rafael: So another thing that you could be doing, which I love this one is A-B testing. Marketing, just like life, it's not one plus one equals two. Marketing is just trial and error. Trial and error. Obviously, you're spending a bunch of money. You're investing a bunch of money into your future, so you want to mitigate that fail as much as possible. For example, when we were doing Kevin's videos for the Germ Shark, we ran like 100 pick food tests. We were actually the company that ran the most pick food tests. Why? Because we want to mitigate the most amount of errors as possible. We didn't come out of the studio we're like, oh, let's just create this, it's going to be a winner. No, we tried it out a lot of times. So what you could do is, in your packages you can have two QR codes and see which one converts the most, depending on your product. Again, and you know, get creative and that's it. Um for overachievers, make sure that you're evaluating your KPIs. So repeat purchasing metrics. Are they buying this again? Is this working? Is it not working? Brand loyalty metrics. Are they going back? Are they not buying back off Amazon influence, Amazon attribution, advertising and sales. Percentage of off Amazon sales. For example, Kevin gets a lot of off Amazon sales because he has that list right and that is it. Kevin King: That was good, good stuff, Rafael. I want to just do something real quick before we get into answering specific questions. Come and listen to what I'm about to say. You, absolutely positively, can send people out of the Amazon ecosystem. Okay, you do. You can put your social media links. You can put a link to your website. You can do that. Quit following for the misinformation that's all over Facebook that people are talking out their ass, that don't know what they're talking about are doing. Quit it. Quit spreading this stuff. I see this in the chat and it pisses me off because you're wrong. This is one of the reasons I created Freedom Ticket back in 2017, when Manny Coats came to me and said hey, do you want to create Freedom Ticket? One of the reasons I did is there's so much misinformation out there. Quit falling for it. You can absolutely do it. There's certain things you cannot do. Raphael showed you that Bradley just posted in there like you, don't want some people to go buy this on Target instead or Amazon's competition, but if you're going to create an app, that's a brilliant thing. You can create apps with no code software now, with AI, you don't even have to be a programmer. You can go and create a very basic app and say it's a great lead magnet, download this app. You know, he said he showed the example of the one that's for monitoring your weight. Um, which is probably a little bit more elaborate, but you can create a very simple little app. People are more likely to download a cool app that goes with their product than they are. Um, you know, if I'm doing dog treats, I could do a dog training app. You know it's got a few videos embedded in it and it's a great lead magnet. Kevin King: You can send people off. What you cannot do is anything around reviews or influencing reviews or something like that. But you can send people off, you can capture information. Just don't do anything that would hint at influencing reviews. That means putting five stars. That means saying leave us reviews and then putting five stars under it to say, kind of imply that you want five stars To say if you have a problem, contact us. Otherwise, go leave a review on Amazon. Don't do anything, don't offer discounts. If you leave us a review or if you do that, I'll give you a coupon. Don't do anything like that to incentivize reviews on Amazon. That you cannot do, and don't even do it on your own website, just so that there's no gray area there. But you can send people off and they can buy things on your website too. Okay, so I want to get that straight. Okay, so quit falling for the misinformation, quit. Bradley Sutton: All right, tell us how you really feel, Kevin. But let me start pulling up some questions. First of all, we answered Oleg. Oleg says Kevin answered my question before I even asked. That's perfect, all right. So let's just-. Kevin King: No, I think Kane says you can't. Yeah, they don't want you sending to other marketplaces, like that's what Kane just said here. You can go to your own website and they don't want you sending people over to Target or to eBay or over to a competing website. I would steer clear of that kind of stuff. Saying our product is available and you put the Amazon logo, the Target logo, the Walmart logo, that is a no-no. But taking them to your own website to do after-sale warranty, to get an app, to get some sort of other accessory for your product that's, an add-on to the product, or to grab a coupon for their next order on Amazon, all that is fine. Kevin King: Hope says that coupon codes last for 30 days on Amazon. Then you have to create a new one. So you can't. What you do is you put a, you create a QR code you can use Bitly or whatever your favorite QR code tool is and create one that goes to a specific landing page and then you update that page every 30 days. You create a new coupon and you just update the page. You update that page so that QR code stays the same. So even if your product doesn't sell for a year, you're updating the page, not the QR code to a specific place. That's an easy workaround. Rafael: Yep, and also not even coupon codes. Maybe you want to offer something new now, that QR code that Kevin's saying that you can update. You can do whatever you want with it. It's your QR code, basically. Bradley Sutton: I have one here. I know what I saw here that would have got this flag, but I just want I'm curious about what Kevin saw. Maybe you saw this one. But Maria says hey, I know somebody who had an insert that said let us know how we did Leave us a review on Amazon. We value your opinion. With a QR code below which said for a free book on the dangers of what their product was working to protect. Scan the QR code and Amazon close the listing, force the seller to remove these inserts. The seller did not ask for positive reviews. Is it not okay to ask for reviews at all? I know what I saw here, that that might have triggered it. What about you, Kevin? Kevin King: That's an incentive. You're basically I mean it doesn't directly word for word say it, but that can be read as an incentive that if you leave us a review, we're going to give you this free book. You can't do that. That's a no-no and that right there is an example of you've got to keep your nose super clean on anything around the words reviews and you're tying them together. They didn't say hey, go leave us a review and we'll give you a free book, but they tied them together in that same paragraph and you can read into that. That's kind of what they're implying. Don't do that. That will get you in trouble. As far as number of QR codes, I would never do more than two and put them on opposite sides of the page or opposite one at the top, one at the bottom, or opposite sides on the bottom so they don't get crossed. But I would never do more than two. One is best. You always want people to take one directed action. One action is always better than multiple and confusing them. But if you have a valid reason, you could put two, and I think that would. That would be okay. Bradley Sutton: All right. Mahak said how do I generate QR codes to direct customers? So there's, you know, any QR code generator can do it Helium 10 Portals. If you have access to Helium 10, you've got access to Helium 10 Portals you can create the QR code there. You know, Rafael showed some examples of QR codes in his presentation, but pretty much any QR code. Rafael: And also Mahak, it's not just creating the QR code. Make sure it's something like Kevin said, like it's in their face, like they want to see it, they want to scan it and it's not just like scan this, because most likely they're not going to scan it. You want to get, I would say, 5%, 10% of those QR codes scanned at least. If you're getting less than that, you should re-evaluate how you're presenting that insert packaging. Kevin King: Hope what you just asked is a no-no. Can I ask for an honest review in an email follow-up after they enter the review on a landing page? No, don't do that. Basically, Amazon will see as like you're filtering reviews. So you're saying, go leave us an honest review on our own landing page. They're typing it and, even though you made the confirmation page, may automatically say, uh, please, uh, you know, be kind and post this to Amazon or somewhere whatever. Amazon could see that as that you're filtering. Like if they left you something negative, then you're not asking them to do it, and if there's something positive, you are asking them to do it. So don't, don't do that. You can ask, you can say on your we love reviews, please leave us an honest review. That general wording by itself, with nothing else around it. Any other stuff about a free book or something is like way down the page or somewhere else or not even on there. That should be okay. You got one um. Bradley Sutton: Marcy says how many QR codes per insert do you think is acceptable? I've got one for my YouTube and one for my Facebook group. I want to add one for man. She wants QR codes all over the place. I want to add one for a 10% off, a coupon with an attribution tag so I can get the brown referral bonus. What do you guys think? Kevin King: Uh yeah, I just answered that. I said don't do more than two, don't do more. Rafael: Okay, I would present it. Marcy, maybe I would present the 10% in a different way. Maybe not a QR code, maybe it's just like literally just a code. But again, that does expire, like Kevin said. But I'm with Kevin 100%, I wouldn't do more than two. Like you saw in the light bulb example that I gave you, there was one at the top, one on the bottom. It wasn't next to each other, because it can get tricky like that. You want to separate. Even the color was separated in the package. It was like a different color in the background. So you want that separation as well. Kevin King: Tadara is asking can we add samples of other products and inserts or offer to send free samples? Yeah, you can add samples as an insert, especially with little accessories. Here's a free. If you're selling something sewing, here's a free button kit. Or here's a free bead kit or something. You know we have 16,000 other colors available on Amazon. Here's a free sample as a gift. You know there's little gifts like that work. I mean there's a video. Rafael will understand this there. Back in the day before that everything was digital, I had to order to do all of our video production. We had ordered beta tapes and we had ordered these big beta tapes, uh, and HD tapes, uh, these, you know, they're big like squares that you put in the big cameras and we'd order them out of this company in Philadelphia and every time they would send me these, these packages, uh, with my shipment of 10 tapes you know these tapes were like a hundred dollars a piece or something I would get two little packages of M&Ms, like you see at Halloween, the little, tiny, little sample size packages of M&Ms, and during the summer they didn't put those in there because, but instead they put a note sorry, due to the heat, these might melt, you know, and so they wouldn't put them in and it would always tick me off that I didn't get those two little packages of M&Ms. These are, you know, 20 cents. But the fact that I would get those in there was a thing so surprising people with a gift can be great. Kevin King: Another thing that I've done with a power to insert on my dog products is I've offered us I've had where I sell antlers, I sell bully sticks, I sell duck treats, I sell a variety of other dog treats, and what I'll do is I'll make a sample pack and I'll say get a free sample pack of all of our seven dog treats on Amazon that we sell on Amazon. I'll put a picture of the Amazon listing photo and actually you know and put it, put it on there and say we'll send you a sample pack with this along with a coupon. Just pay $7.95 shipping and handling. It costs me like $4 to send it out. $3 basically covers the cost. I send them a sample pack through the mail. That way. They have to give me their address, they have to give me their phone number because I'll say this is for how we deliver delivery, updates and shipping tracking numbers is by phone, so give me a valid phone number and then we send that sample pack out and in. There is a sample pack, and then there's a coupon that says get this on Amazon. I mean 20% off your first order, your first bag, use this coupon, it works really well. And then I capture their name and email address and I'm driving stuff back to Amazon. I'm creating this whole circle and it works really, really well. Rafael: Amelia has a good question. Bradley Sutton: So Amelia said here can you improve our current package design? If yes, would the insert card and the package design be connected to our current branding design and what would the creative process be behind this? Rafael: okay, um, I don't want to do any sales right now, but yeah, we can help you. But just in case, um, the insert, I would say that you do need to, um, to keep it harmoniously, um, I would say like it should be aligned to your branding. That's why it's a branding. It should be aligned to your branding. And if you can actually put it within the packaging, maybe you wanna save money in the insert cards and you wanna put it on top of the lid of the box or something like that. You could do that depending on your budget. So many questions that I have to be able to answer that correctly. But, yes, and the process you do it is what I was talking about. You should have understanding the product, the niche, the buyer persona, their needs, their troubles, their fears, everything that you can gather from them and give them to that, okay. So maybe if it's a fitness product, I'm trying to get fit for BDSS. Okay. So for me, it was getting something to help me maintain my weight scale, understanding where I should eat, what time I should eat. So when I was looking through products to help me with that, the insert cards or the products like the hero images gave me that it was like, oh, this scale has an app. It was through the hero image. I was like, okay, let me check this out, and that's how I got hooked on that scale. So yeah, I hope that answers your question, amelia. Bradley Sutton: All right, we got a question from Joseph, who's got a scenario here. He says all right, I've got this QR code. Says something to the effect of learn more about the benefits of our product here. Takes them to an about page on our brand website, which website is also a Shopify D2C website that has a shop page. Is that permissible? Kevin King: That's a gray one right there. Um, I would that. That's a gray one that one could be seen as either way. Um, I would probably, if I would probably, cordon off that Shopify page. Uh, I think Shopify allows you to do this. I think Esther Frystone has a landing page that goes on top of Shopify that allows you to corner off the rest of your Shopify site, like to focus it on a single product. Um, I mean, if they get creative and they hit a bunch of buttons and they might go back to your homepage, but I would avoid any confusion there. That's a gray one. Rafael: A question really quick from Henry. He says that all products need to have warranties. I'm not saying that your product shouldn't have a warranty, definitely if you want to include warranties. 100%. But what I'm saying is that what's going to take action to scan that QR code? Is it going to be the call to action for a warranty or is it going to be a call to action to like hey, for your next product, if it's a vitamin, for example, that you know they're going to repeat the consumption, here's 10, 15% off. I'm not saying don't include it, of course, 100%. If you want to include it, I include it. But when you say the call to action, what's going to be that action that's going to make them scan it? Is it going to be the warranty or is it going to be, depending on the product? That's what I'm trying to say there, just in case. I don't want to make any confusions there. Bradley Sutton: I was just saying Lance is wondering how to get in contact with Rafael. You can be connected directly to them at hubhelium10.com and just type in ShareIt Studio. They're all over social media as well. Rafael's on LinkedIn. If you're in Helium 10, the easiest way is just go to hubhelium10.com and enter ShareIt Studio and you'll be able to even see. Maybe if you're a certain member of Helium 10, you might get certain discounts with them as well if you're logged in on that page. Rafael: If you're seeing this, this is my insert card. If you're seeing this, if you say Bradley and Kev are the best, we'll give you a really good discount. Bradley Sutton: There we go. I like that. Kevin, you had a question you said you wanted to answer, or was it someone else? Kevin King: I just saw one. Someone said they're doing a. Where did it go? They offer a 100-pound Amazon voucher prize draw each month. It's an image or video tagged on Instagram or TikTok. Each image uploaded gets one entry in the drawing. Opinions, please. Yeah, I don't see any problem with that. That should be totally fine and that's good marketing. Yeah, so you should be totally fine with that. Rafael: Angela Reategui. I hope I'm not butchering your last name, Angela. She asked can I include a QR code for free e-book? Uh, yes, we've done it with clients, especially in the home and kitchen, like food sector. It's worked really well with them. Uh, so yeah. Kevin King: Kane's like says can we offer discounts only on Amazon? Can we offer coupons for our own website? Um it, you can offer a coupon for your own website but, like for accessories or something, I wouldn't do it for the same product. I wouldn't say, come and buy, you know this exact same product. Or you don't want to do stuff where you're putting people into their, into your flow. You know, if it's a subscribe and save type of product, Amazon's probably not going to like it too much that if you're trying to get them to come to your subscribe and save on your Shopify site versus you're on Amazon, that that's a gray area, and so I would. I would just stay away from something like that. But offering them a discount hey, you know you just bought this blender. We have an accessory kit. As an Amazon customer, you get 20% off. It's not sold on Amazon, it's only available directly from us. Then yeah, that should be fine. Bradley Sutton: All right. Well, guys, thank you for all the great questions. We're going to be back here next month with another guest, Rafael, Kevin. Thank you so much for joining. Don't forget to reach out to Share It Studio, hub.helium10.com. All right, guys, hope you enjoyed that training. Don't forget again, the full, actual detail of the training, without the Q and A and all that other stuff, is in the Freedom Ticket course. So go to your learning hub inside of Helium 10. And if you have no idea what Freedom Ticket is, want to get more information, just go to h10.me/ft for freedom ticket. And let us know if you're watching this on YouTube or somewhere else. What other advanced topics would you like us to do? A deep dive, Q & A and bring an expert on with Kevin? Let us know in the comments below if you're watching this on YouTube or another place. Until then, we'll see you guys in the next episode.

"This book literally left me speechless," 5-star Amazon Review for The Flower from the Garbage. G. Edward Martin loves to write and uses his passion to fuel his entire creative process. He uses his book, The Flower from the Garbage to ask rough, philosophical questions to keep readers engaged in more ways than one. He's pleased to see his writings earn him a Reader's Favorite Award and it only encourages him to write more. You can learn more about Edward by visiting his website: https://edwardmartinbooks.com/ The Big Time Talker is sponsored by Speakermatch.com.

With summer right upon us it's time to start thinking about how to keep these kids reading! We tried to make it easy for all of us by having the one and only Aimee Smith join us from "Keep A Book Out." Find her on Instagram @keepabookout. You will not regret this follow. This parent knows what she's doing and it was so fun to hear her book recommendations (which we linked below!)We asked her if she "pre-read" all the books her teenagers read and she said "no! There is no time!" But she did enlighten us by saying she will check out COMMON SENSE MEDIA & AMAZON REVIEWS for info on book content. Here are the books mentioned in this episode:- Anything by Kate DeCamillo- Anything by Dan Santat- Anything by Mac Barnett- Anything by Shawn Harris- The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza - Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series Books for teens:- Brandon Sanderson - Hunger Games Books for tweens:- Kelly Yang- The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise - From the Desk of Zoey Washington- Ella Enchanted - A Wolf Called Wander - Bob- Cranky Chicken- Wilderwood - How to Survive Anything Books for kids:- Zoey and Sassafras - Bibi- Chester Van Chime who Forgot How to Rhyme - A Dog Named Doug- When Charlie Met Emma- The Giggles are Coming & The Yawns are Coming-

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ON this week's podcast I am joined by Ruairi Woods to discuss Freaky Feet Ice Cream, Boiling Point, Gordon Ramsey's new Marvel Role, Sausages in a cup, Infinity Wipes, Amazon Reviews, a surprise call from Aaron McCann and much much more. "OVERKILL" Irish Tour tickets: https://www.colingeddis.com/buy-tickets Brand New Tour Show G.O.A.T (Geddis on another Tour) tickets available here: https://www.colingeddis.com/buy-tickets Be Dead on and grab some Dead on Mafia stuff - https://visualanticsapparel.com/ Become a member of The Dead On Mafia over at the General Banter Patreon -  Patreon.com/generalbanterpodcast

Join us in this exciting episode as we explore the e-commerce landscape with Will Haire, the co-founder of BellaVix. Specializing in marketplace marketing for D2C brands, Will brings over a decade of experience in boosting sales on Amazon and Walmart. Dive into his valuable insights on effective strategies, overcoming challenges, and the latest trends in e-commerce operations.

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Who says you can't dominate Amazon? Not us. Join the Friday Live Q&A with Faith Denniston and Jason Mastromatteo to prove them wrong!This isn't just another Q&A session: It's a goldmine of Amazon wisdom. Cut through the Amazon clutter: → Live expert advice at your fingertips. → Real-time solutions to your Amazon dilemmas. Your weekly Amazon power-up: → Learn, connect, and turbocharge your e-commerce game. Every Friday is a chance to level up: → Don't just watch the game, change the game. Be there or be square. Let's unlock your Amazon potential together! #AmazonFridayLiveQA #AmazonSellerSupport #MyAmazonGuyLiveTimestamps:00:00 - Introduction and Countdown10:02 - Podcast Topic Introduction10:30 - Starting with Amazon Seller Questions10:53 - Amazon News Update: Documentation Support Changes11:43 - Amazon Category Trends Analysis Tools14:23 - Addressing Helium 10 Billing Issue and Rebuilding Listings15:56 - Dealing with Amazon FBA Shipment and Delivery Issues18:22 - Karen's PPC Strategy Inquiry and Recommendations24:42 - Touchstone's Question on Shipping Large Products in Two Boxes26:58 - Josh's Pricing Strategy and Buy Box Concerns30:42 - Rosen's Question on Tracking Changes in Seller Central by Different Users34:35 - Superfrog's Inquiry about Product Reviews and Amazon Vine Program39:03 - Blain's Question on Price Suppression and Increasing Product Price41:02 - Rosen's Query on Swapping Non-GS1 UPCs with GS1 UPCs44:35 - All's Question on Scaling Sales and Improving Profitability on Amazon47:01 - Superfrog's Second Inquiry about Adding a Second SKU to Avoid Commingling50:43 - Vara's Question on QR Codes for Warranty and Collecting Emails53:00 - Keen Brands' Query on Updating Brand Name on Amazon Listing56:04 - Faith's Insights on Ideal Product Listing Images58:17 - Superfrog's Follow-up on SKU Labeling Error and Inventory Check-in1:00:58 - Discussion on QR Codes for Customer Engagement1:01:29 - Identifying Real Suppliers and Getting Permissions for Quality Brands1:03:17 - Issues with Catalog Listings Report Processing1:03:35 - Advice on QR Codes for Amazon Reviews and Alternative Review Strategies1:04:45 - Building Effective Product Listing Images1:09:34 - Amazon Posts: Where to Find Them1:09:57 - Handling Inventory Labeling Errors and SKU Confusion1:13:53 - Caution on Using Email Addresses in QR Codes1:14:27 - Wrapping Up: Services Offered by My Amazon GuySupport the show

This week we're doing something different, we present WIHTA: Greatest Hits - Best of Amazon Reviews - 2018 (Year 1): A Tim Solocast. (Title still pending approval.) We're listening back to some of the funniest, most unhinged reviews from our first year of the show. Tim sets up each clip and special guest Garrett Harvey steps in to discuss the reviews with Tim. (You didn't really think Garrett would let Tim have his own episode did you?) In this episode we discuss delusion, moths, rapping boy bands, body swaps, hypocrites, money laundering, chimp harassment, Tim's speaking voice, cookies, cannibals, Dutch foods and so much more! Email: hatepodmail@gmail.com Twitter: @albumHatePod IG: @hatePod Threads: hatePod hatepod.com   

Today, we're talking about why we humans feel compelled to take the traditional path, and why in reality, happiness and fulfillment come from taking unorthodox routes. Liz discusses her own quirky life decisions, including her choice to give birth at home, and shares a 3-step plan for how to design a life that is uniquely yours. Leave an Amazon Review for Liz's bookOrder Liz's book- The Karma of SuccessSubscribe to the Reset Monthly NewsletterAsk Liz a question to answer on the podcast or newsletterFollow Reset on Instagram

In this episode, we're talking about long-term relationships of all types- platonic, romantic, and professional, and unpacking what it takes to create healthy, meaningful, enduring dynamics. Liz breaks down the lessons she's learned over the years from having lots of long-term relationships- some terrible, some beautiful, and many in-between. She shares how she has learned to grow as a person to nurture strong dynamics. Leave an Amazon Review for Liz's bookOrder Liz's book- The Karma of SuccessSubscribe to the Reset Monthly NewsletterAsk Liz a question to answer on the podcast or newsletterFollow Reset on Instagram

Join comedians James Pietragallo and Jimmie Whisman with their new podcast as they explore the most opinionated part of the internet: The Reviews Section!This week, we continue the saga of bad times at Jump A Roos, deal with gangs in the cereal aisle, blasphemous bagels, convenience store pizza, and much more!!Subscribe and we will see you every Monday with Your Stupid Opinions!!!Don't forget to rate & review!!Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie WhismanSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As Zora Neale Hurston so eloquently stated, "There are years that ask questions and years that answer." This podcast is all about what to do when you're at a point in your lie that has more questions than answers. Perhaps this means you're unsure of what you want, uncertain about the next steps, or just confused about what you're doing with your life. We offer a 3-step action plan for making the most of this beautiful time of possibility and new beginnings. Show Notes:MBTI Personality TestLeave an Amazon Review for Liz's bookOrder Liz's book- The Karma of SuccessSubscribe to the Reset Monthly NewsletterAsk Liz a question to answer on the podcast or newsletterFollow Reset on Instagram

This episode we're pondering the age-old question- "Does everything happen for a reason?" with a wonderful guest, Katie Dalebout, a writer, interviewer, host, and facilitator of creative community. Through a mini-coaching session, we explore topics like emotional decision-making, regret, and personal agency.  Links:https://www.katiedalebout.com https://www.instagram.com/katiedaleboutLeave an Amazon Review for Liz's book Order Liz's book- The Karma of SuccessSubscribe to the Reset Monthly NewsletterAsk Liz a question to answer on the podcast or newsletterFollow Reset on Instagram

In this episode we're trying something new-- We're interviewing Chelsea Riffe, a podcast strategist, and full-time traveler. We discuss her path arriving at  her unique career path, and then the last half of the episode is a mini-coaching session with Liz on Chelsea's next moves. Listen for powerful insights on taking creative risks. Links:Leave an Amazon Review for Liz's book  Order Liz's book- The Karma of SuccessSubscribe to the Reset Monthly NewsletterAsk Liz a question to answer on the podcast or newsletterFollow Reset on Instagram

I have interviewed Neil Twa, the founder and CEO of Voltage Digital Marketing. Neil partnered with a local community on a project he believed would be a game-changer. He found out that he was being defrauded and had to quit the project, losing his entire investment. We discuss private label and e-commerce businesses and how you can learn insider strategies on how to build a hyper-profitable Amazon business, achieve incredible growth, and set yourself up for a successful exit in just 36 months, even without any prior eCommerce experience. Don't miss out on this game-changing opportunity! Who's the Guest? Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Voltage Digital Marketing. He has been launching, operating, and growing private label ecommerce businesses for the last 9+ years. As of today, he and his clients have sold over $100 million+ in physical products primarily through the Amazon FBA sales channel. Links and Resources from this Episode https://www.practicalwealthadvisors.com https://www.practicalwealthsolutions.net/ Email Curtis for a free report - curtmay@gmail.com Call his office - 610-622-3121 ERC Tax Credit - https://ercspecialists.com?fpr=curtis75 Schedule a call with Curtis: https://aptwithcurtis.as.me/Strategysession CashFlow Mapping: https://practicalwealth.cashflowmapping.com/lp/PWbudgetsstink Private Reserve Strategy: https://app.agent-crm.com/v2/preview/vWh4TyHnUBXdULimd82i Connect with Neil Twa To reach out to Niel text CURTIS at 417-413-4209 Visit his website: https://voltagedm.com/ https://www.instagram.com/neiltwa/ https://twitter.com/voltagefba https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltwa Special Listener Gift Schedule a 15-Minute Call with Curtis: https://aptwithcurtis.as.me/Strategysession  Show Notes Importance of e-commerce due to a shift from in-person retail to online digital commerce and mobile purchasing The Amazon FBA ecosystem and why focusing on private label products creates intrinsic value Importance of investing time, energy, attention, and money (TEAM) in building a successful Amazon FBA business The growth in e-commerce opportunity and leveraging a 36-month business building strategy to create intrinsic value Priorities in business: Fun, people, and profit Challenging financial situations in the past, with a family to support and bills to pay How e-commerce saved Neil's family and changed his life, allowing him to spend quality time with his children Importance of having accurate and realistic information about the capital needed to start and grow a business Why you should have multiple revenue streams and targeting products that have a higher profit margin The potential opportunity in targeting Prime members due to their high spending on Amazon Review, Subscribe and Share If you like what you hear please leave a review by clicking here Make sure you're subscribed to the podcast so you get the latest episodes. Click here to subscribe with Apple Podcasts Click here to subscribe with Spotify Click here to subscribe with Stitcher Click here to subscribe with RSS

Amazon is a highly competitive marketplace, and many businesses rely on Amazon agencies or consultants to navigate the complexities of the platform to grow and scale their business.However, not all agencies and consultants are created equal.Some may make unrealistic promises or use manipulative tactics to secure your business, while others may lack the necessary expertise or experience to deliver results.Finding the right agency or consultant can be a challenge. From slick brochures that oversell and underdeliver to outright hucksters who are out to fleece clients, the risks of hiring the wrong partner are high.In this episode, Shannon and I discuss the top 10 red flags that may indicate a less-than-reputable partner.Key Takeaways- They promise you they'll get specific results (03:08)- They create projections and forecasts without any real data (09:27)- Their prices are suspiciously 'low' (12:24)- They haven't worked with clients in your industry (15:02)- They have a slow response time (19:03)- They lack proof or case studies (20:12)- They have poor client retention (22:18)- They don't ask about your challenges; they only sell their services (27:34)- They rely on outsourcing instead of in-house talent (29:01)- They don't take time to vet you as a client and gain alignment (32:57)Additional Resources:Links to the news story:- https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/11/ftc-takes-action-stop-dk-automation-kevin-david-hulse-pitching-phony-amazon-crypto-moneymaking----- Schedule a FREE consultation with the Ave7 team- Grab the FREE Amazon Seller Central Checklist- Get the book “The Amazon Jungle” book by Jason Boyce- Learn more about Avenue 7 Media----Day 2 Podcast has a goal of helping Amazon sellers learn how to launch, grow and protect their brand on the world's largest online marketplace (and beyond).Follow us on your favorite podcast platform so you never miss an episode!

We recently came across an AWESOME review left at amazon.co.uk. We are hoping to track down the woman who wrote such a great and meaningful review of Erin's Get The Hell Out Of Debt book. Can you help Keri find Jasmine? ⭐️ See the review here: shorturl.at/qSU28  Email Keri at info@erinskyekelly.com if you have any leads on finding Jasmine. Same address to send your fave memes. (Check out @getthehelloutofdebt on Instagram to see Keri's favorite meme of all time!)   If you read and liked the book, please leave a review wherever you buy books online! Team ESK thanks you in advance. https://amzn.to/3FTWbHh Record your thoughts, questions, opinions and send them to us here: https://www.speakpipe.com/erinskyekelly  Subscribe to this podcast to get notifications about the Money Meditations coming next week.       

Look, everyone was a Discovery Channel Guy from the late 90's to the mid 2010's  We looked at the people who have been letdown with Discovery dumbing down Amazon Reviews for Deadliest Catch, Planet Earth and ManVsWild  We ended with a little bit of sex guys talk Please don't make fun of me for flubbing the opening Will Menaker is @willmenaker on Twitter and on patreon he is at patreon.com/chapotraphouse. Sign up for his miniseries Movie Mindset.  Mike Hale is @DogBoner and is on your kickstarter sucks at patreon.com/yourkickstartersucks Music by Zachary Fairbrother @avantlard on twitter

OVERVIEW: "You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions." – Napoleon Hill Jason A. Duprat, Entrepreneur, Healthcare Practitioner, and Host of the Healthcare Entrepreneur Academy podcast, talks about the Importance of Critical Thinking as an Entrepreneur. In this episode, Jason shares his process when writing his first-ever book, how long it took him, the challenges he faced, and his "Never settle for less" attitude. Tune into this episode to learn more about his upcoming book launch and how to get a free audio version of the book! 3 KEY POINTS: Master your critical thinking skills. Don't dwell on making everything perfect. Don't settle for less. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: As an entrepreneur, you've already created a solution for your clients. You have the foundation to be a great critical thinker. Beyond that, you must master being a critical thinker because there will be daily problems in your business. Jason and his team are currently handling multiple challenges inside the business, mainly his upcoming book launch. His first-ever book, "Clinic Launch Secrets: The Healthcare Professional's Playbook for Boosting Income and Autonomy through Practice Ownership," will be launched on March 12-18. When facing something for the first time, there will be more uncertainties, making the hurdle much steeper to overcome. You may shortcut your process with the help of assistants and consultants, but sometimes you have to do the work yourself. Jason's next challenge with his book launch is needing Amazon Reviews. The solution they thought of is, for one time only, to offer the book as a Kindle version for ¢99 on March 12-18. Jason highly recommends the book as it contains high-quality content, some even taken directly from his courses. Jason notes that you could read the book and start your own practice with little to no extra help if you have the motivation. To purchase the Clinic Launch Secrets book, use this link https://mybook.to/cliniclaunchsecrets/ and then leave a rating and written review. Grab a screenshot of your review and head over to https://www.jasonduprat.com/review and then you will receive access to the complementary audiobook. TWEETABLE QUOTES: "As a perfectionist, you're going to be constantly making changes, but at some point, you just have to be okay with getting it out there, and knowing that good is going to be good enough." – Jason A. Duprat "Your reputation can take decades to earn and be completely ruined in just a few seconds. That's not something I'm willing to sacrifice by putting out lazy content." – Jason A. Duprat CONNECT WITH JASON DUPRAT LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram | Youtube Email: support@jasonduprat.com Join our Facebook group: https://jasonduprat.com/group  RESOURCES Want to become an IV Nutritional Therapy provider? JOIN our FREE masterclass: https://ivtherapyacademy.com/podcast Sign up for one of our free business start-up Masterclasses by heading over to https://jasonduprat.com/freemasterclass Have a healthcare business question? Want to request a podcast topic? Text me at 407-972-0084 and I'll add you to my contacts. Occasionally, I'll share important announcements and answer your questions as well. I'm excited to connect with you! Do you enjoy our podcast? Leave a rating and review: https://lovethepodcast.com/hea Don't want to miss an episode? Subscribe and follow: https://followthepodcast.com/hea RELATED EPISODES: #314: JOEY FERRY: INNOVATING IN HEALTHCARE AND COMBINING PASSION WITH PURPOSE  #271: THE HEALTHCARE BOSS MANIFESTO: WHO WE ARE AND WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!  #312: TACTICAL TUESDAY: HOW TO USE THE VALUE LADDER TO SCALE YOUR BUSINESS FROM FREE TO PREMIUM    #HealthcareEntrepreneurAcademy #healthcare #HealthcareBoss #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #podcast #businessgrowth #teamgrowth #digitalbusiness  

There's never a dull moment when it comes to Amazon and Amazon sellers. This time, it's all about the Federal Trade Commission. For the very first time in their history, they are cracking down on Amazon review hacking.The FTC has taken action against a supplement marketer known as The Bountiful Company for abusing Amazon's features to deceive customers. They have fined them a whopping $600,000.The FTC has accused Bountiful of using review hijacking, a tactic they claim is deceptive, to merge its newly introduced supplements on Amazon with well-established products that had more product ratings, reviews, and badges to create an impression of higher product ratings and reviews, as well as "Amazon's Choice" and "Best Seller" badges.The tricky thing about this decision from FTC for Amazon sellers is that some things that we never thought were illegal are now deemed illegal by the commission. Some of these aren't even against Amazon's TOS.Bountiful took advantage of Amazon's feature that allows vendors to create variation relationships between similar products that differ only in narrow, specific ways such as color, size, quantity, or flavor. Products with a variation relationship share the same product detail page on Amazon.com and appear as alternative choices, so shoppers can compare and choose among similar products.They used this loophole to create numerous variation relationships for their new supplement products with different formulations.But according to the FTC, this practice has no place in the ecommerce space. It's a misrepresentation whose only purpose is malicious intent to deceive customers through false claims.To unpack what this means for Amazon sellers, I am joined by Shannon Roddy.Key Takeaways- The case against Bountiful (01:51)- Legitimate and illegitimate variations of Amazon listings (04:20)- Amazon's responsibility to warn sellers (10:21)- How Amazon can provide listing transparency to customers in their platform (13:03)- Why the FTC is looking to clean up reviews for ecommerce platforms (18:17)- The issue of product reviews on Amazon (20:58)Additional Resources:Article in question-------- Schedule a FREE consultation with the Ave7 team- Grab the FREE Amazon Seller Central Checklist- Get the book “The Amazon Jungle” book by Jason Boyce- Learn more about Avenue 7 Media----Day 2 Podcast has a goal of helping Amazon sellers learn how to launch, grow and protect their brand on the world's largest online marketplace (and beyond).Follow us on your favorite podcast platform so you never miss an episode!

The Reverend and the Reprobate sit down with Legendary reporter and Texas Radio Hall of Famer, Mike Rhyner! He's back! Rhynes tells the  @RevRepPodcast  what it was like to marginalized at the very station he started against all odds. How and why the Allosaurus could beat up the T-Rex. The Rev and Rep get Rhyner to read Monty Python excerpts and Amazon Reviews, find out what his daughter thinks about the freak, regale him with stories of how "What's on Mike's Mind" sent them literally on life changing adventures, whether George Lucas got hush money to fund his film career, and what the heck happened to Quincy Carter. He talks about Greggo too. It's one of the wildest episodes the guys have ever produced. He's not a StarWar, A Lord of the Ring, or a Willow, he is The Old Grey Wolf find him here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/theoldgreywolf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mike.rhyner.5 The Downbeat Podcast Rev and Rep Linktr.ee (all the show links can be found below) https://linktr.ee/revreppodcast

Summary  In this episode, Dr. Peter reviews the limitations of current Catholic resources on anger, and then reviews secular resources, including interpersonal neurobiology and the structural theory of dissociation.  We examine the role of the body in anger responses, and discuss more wholistic ways of working constructive with parts that experience anger, rather than trying to dismiss anger, suppress it or distract from it.   Lead-in William Blake, A Poison Tree: I was angry with my friends; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.  We've all experienced anger and we've all experienced angry people  We know it's a problem.  And global data suggest that it's getting worse.   Gallup world poll from 2021: 140 countries  Did you experience the following feelings during a lot of the day yesterday? How about anger?  17% of US respondents agreed 26% of women worldwide up from 20% from 10 years ago  20% of men -- flat from 10 years ago.   Harm can come from anger Mark Twain “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”  CCC 2302  By recalling the commandment, "You shall not kill," our Lord asked for peace of heart and denounced murderous anger and hatred as immoral. Anger is a desire for revenge. "To desire vengeance in order to do evil to someone who should be punished is illicit," but it is praiseworthy to impose restitution "to correct vices and maintain justice." If anger reaches the point of a deliberate desire to kill or seriously wound a neighbor, it is gravely against charity; it is a mortal sin. The Lord says, "Everyone who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment."   "Everyone who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment."  And who hasn't been angry -- including Jesus himself?.  We have got to unpack this There is so much misunderstanding about anger in the Catholic world, so much of the way that Catholics have approached anger has been limited, misinformed, and misguided When I think about why the Catholic Church in the US, in Canada, in Europe and Australia, in the entire Western World, there are many factors.   Brandon Vogt  New Stats on Why Young People Leave the Church  based on his book Return:  How to Draw Your Child Back to the Church One critical factor is that cradle Catholics, especially young Catholics do not believe that the Church can help them with their problems.  Diocese of Springfield Exit Surveys (2014)  68% – Spiritual needs not met67% – Lost interest over time Only 7% of Millennials raised Catholic still actively practice their faith today (weekly Mass, pray a few times each week, say their faith is “extremely” or “very” important) 6.5 people leave the Catholic Church for every one that joins 66% of “nones” agree that “religion causes more problems than it solves” That's why so many fall away from the Faith.  The Church doesn't seem relevant to them because she doesn't seem like she has the answers to the real issues they face. 10% of American adults are former Catholics Nearly half of those who fall away from the Church become "nones"  And another quarter become Evangelical Christians.   79% of former Catholics leave the Church before age 23.   50% of Millennials raised Catholic no longer identify as Catholic today  And it's about topics like anger -- we are not doing a good job meeting the needs that Catholics have today, human formation needs.   Intro I am Dr. Peter Malinoski, a.k.a. Dr. Peter, clinical psychologist, trauma therapist, podcaster, blogger, cofounder and president of Souls and Hearts -- but most of all I am a beloved little son of God, a passionate Catholic who wants to help you to taste and see the height and depth and breadth and warmth and the light of the love of God, especially God the Father and  Mary our Mother, our spiritual parents, our primary parents.  To really absorb your identity as a little child of God and Mary.   I want you to enter much more deeply into an intimate, personal, loving relationship with the three Persons of the Trinity and with our Lady. That is what this Interior Integration for Catholics podcast is all about, that is what Souls and Hearts is all about – all about shoring up the natural foundation for the spiritual life of intimacy with God, all about overcoming the natural human formation deficits and obstacles to contemplative union with God our Father and our Lady, our Mother  We are on an adventure of love together. And one thing, one major, big, huge thing that gets in the way of being loved by God and Mary and loving in return is anger.  Anger.   This is Episode 103 of Interior Integration for Catholics.  Interior Integration for Catholics is part of Souls and Hearts, our online outreach, check us out at soulsandhearts.com.   Anger: one of the seven deadly sins, one the lethal vices that can kill your soul.  Anger.   So much confusion about anger.  The Burden of Anger:  June 10, 2021 Catholic-daily-reflections.com The first level of sin is simply to be “angry” interiorly. The sin of anger is an interior attitude of disgust toward another. Jesus says that the consequence of having anger toward another is that you will be “liable to judgment.” Humility.  I could be wrong.    The offerings from Five Catholic writers on anger are a case in point.   The most popular book Fr. T.G. Morrow, Overcoming Sinful Anger  303 Amazon Review, mostly positive, #16  on the list of bestsellers in Catholic Theology, put out by Sophia Press in 2015 And it's not very good.  I can't recommend it.   First off, Fr. Morrow admits that he doesn't understand why people get angry We've all encountered people who explode when they feel angry. It baffles me how often the sort of anger rears its ugly head in marriages – even in allegedly Christian marriages. (p. 9).   I am often surprised to discover Christians who pray ardently, receive the sacraments regularly, we've and attend Mass daily, and yet have an anger problem. (p. 10) Presumes a homogeneous, single personality.   Easy to explain with part.   Why do people explode in anger? There are many reasons, but I think the top three are power and control, a refusal to take responsibility, and habit. (p. 13). Very simplistic view of psychology, and no consideration of neurology, traumatology,  Confusion about the causal chain in anger.  Where anger fits in a sequence of events  Little genuine interest in anger.  Anger is something to essentially get rid of.   Not much consideration of the unconscious and unconscious anger.  Acknowledges that suppressing anger is problematic, but there still is an assumption that if I'm not feeling anger, it's not there.  Disconnect.   "Irrational anger"   Very focused on the will and will training -- naïve assumptions about sympathetic arousal. Nike Spirituality -- Just do it.   Romans 7:15:  I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.   Spiritual Bypassing  Definitions John Welwood: American clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, teacher, and author, known for integrating psychological and spiritual concepts  Using “spiritual ideas, words and practices to sidestep or avoid personal, emotional ‘unfinished business,' to shore up a shaky sense of self, or to belittle basic needs, feelings, psychological wounds and developmental tasks.”  Blogger Rose Hahn:  Spiritual Bypassing: What It Is & How To Avoid It  Bypassing occurs when spiritual ideals get elevated to the realm of absolute truth in such a way that our real, lived experience is somehow denied. Rather than doing the work of healing deep wounds, we may use these ideals to deny, devalue, or avoid meeting our more human needs – such as emotional bonding, love, and esteem. In other words, rather than risk opening ourselves to real human connection, and possibly get hurt, we adopt a more enlightened, spiritual way of relating to the world that doesn't rely on human relationship.  Not a lot from a specifically Catholic perspective, but this is from Katharina, who styles herself "The Bohemian Catholic" We are supposed to uplift each other, and treat each other with love and respect - like icons of Christ, as God's creation… BUT if you find yourself trying to tell someone that their faith should keep them "happy" all the time, then you aren't helping them.  Using spiritual words, spiritual means, spiritual concepts -- all to whitewash or put a Band-Aid on significant psychological or emotional problems in the natural realm  Bypassing the natural realm and going to the spiritual realm.   Essentially saying -- You should not feel this way.  Which is what Fr. Morrow is saying.  He promises to "I will offer some ideas, which I consider quite novel, on how to avoid angry explosions." (p.4) Tips So, as a first step in overcoming passive-aggressive anger keep reminding yourself that you want to be a Christian, and therefore you can't take revenge anymore. (p. 9).  First, take the time to calm down and figure out why you're angry…. One of the tactics often recommended is to count to ten before deciding what to do. (p. 20).  Better still, say a short prayer before acting. The next step is to ask yourself if your angry feeling is been caused by something significant. Most angry fights in marriage are caused by trifling things. (p. 20).  Or perhaps use humor to make your point.(p. 20).  Offering your angry feeling as a sacrifice is not suppressing it but doing something with it. It is making a bad situation into a beneficial one. That is what it means to embrace the cross. (p. 23-24).  If we can forgive others, we can pull the rug out from beneath our anger most of the time. Unforgiveness is the main culprit behind anger. (p. 25).  … Refocus your thoughts away from the things that made you angry to some very positive thoughts. For example, thank God for the beautiful weather for the ability to read or buy things you need. (p. 30).  I often encourage people with an anger problem to daily for humility. It works. (p. 36).  Chapter 7: Thanking God, praising God  Consider your future. One key way to change her behaviors to work on in your mind just what your life will be like if you don't change your angry behavior. (pp. 72-73)  If you struggle with an anger problem write on an index card all the negatives of continuing your anger and read that list several times a day. (p. 74).   Fr. Joseph Esper, Saintly Solutions to Life's Common Problems  99 reviews on amazon.  #138 in Roman Catholicism.  2001 Book -- First Chapter is on anger.   St. Thomas of Villanova: "Dismiss all anger and look into yourself a little." (p. 7) "St. Francis de Sales advises that, to avoid the sin of anger, you must quickly ask God to give peace to your heart when you're angered and then turn your thoughts to something else. Don't discuss the matter at hand or make decisions or correct other person while you're angry. When a person angers you, St. Francis advises, consider the person's good qualities rather than the words or actions you find objectionable." (p. 7) When we have to speak to someone with whom we are angry, we should first pray for the Lord's guidance and help. It's often more effective to speak in terms of asking favors, rather than making demands or giving orders…" (p. 5-6) ...rehearse possible responses and evaluate which ones which might help you. (p. 7) Tommy Tighe St. Dymphna's Playbook: A Catholic Guide to Finding Mental and Emotional Well-Being 2021 book,  #57 in Christian Pastoral Counseling, 66 reviews, mostly positive.   Doesn't discuss anger.  Discusses irritability as a symptom of depression and resentment as a problem in relationships "However, the more I have experienced depression in my own life and in my work as a clinician, the more I have seen the symptoms of irritability and anger is predominant features of depression." (p. 13).  That's one way, not the only way.   So often depression results from  Recommendations "…go for a walk, take some time to meditate, watch or read something that lightens our mood. (p. 13)  "Keeping a diary of our emotions and reactions to those emotions is a great place to start… Look back on a situation, slow it down, and examine what exactly happened….We might ask ourselves: What is it that has led to my irritability? Is it because I'm depressed and trying to stuff that feeling down rather than address it? What am I thinking in that situation? (p. 15).  "We draw this all out on paper, examine what was really behind our emotional response, and then explore ways of thinking that will restructure our reactions and response. And we write these down! Simply thinking about these things isn't going to help. The whole point is to get them out of our head and onto paper so that we can work them out. Consider it an emotional "show your work" kind of exercise." (p. 15).  Then, after a really brief introspective process, we can catch that the real reason for our irritability is our depressed mood, and we can interject coping skills for depression to stave off our irritability. (p. 16).  Changing the focus of our thinking is key when we try to battle against depression and irritability that inevitably rears its ugly head. You've probably heard people suggest keeping a gratitude list to help you feel more positive, much along the same lines as St. Paul's advice. It works. (p. 18).   Steps in the process Visualize yourself from the perspective of compassionate observer.  Notice from the outside whole feelings xare upsetting you and how they are reflected in your appearance.  Try to let the warm feeling of compassion and desire to help arise within you.  Say to yourself: "It is understandable that you feel that way. You are experiencing a natural response to depressing thoughts. But I'm going to help you."  Visualize putting your hand on your shoulder or hugging yourself to soothe and comfort yourself. Give yourself a friendly smile.  Think about if there are other things you want to tell yourself that would energize and encourage you to cheer up.  Taking time to say those things. When you feel it is appropriate, begin saying goodbye to yourself and remind yourself that you come back anytime you want. (p. 16-17). For resentment: Active listening  Tommy Tighe: to fend off resentment, we have to communicate with things are important to us and why. We can't expect our partner to read her mind. We have to tell them the things we value, what things we have grown to expect in relationships because of our past experiences and we have to tell them why. (p 113)   Rhonda Chevrin Taming the Lion Within: 5 Steps from Anger to Peace 2017  16 ratings  is a Catholic author, international speaker and Professor of Philosophy. She is the author of over 60 books concerning the matters of Catholic thought, practice and spirituality,  Take a secure thought -- use your imagination to think of ways out of annoying or enraging situations   Avoid exceptionality.  Accept the averageMove your musclesHumor is your best friendF.I.S.T.  Feelings, Impulses, Sensations, Thoughts:  What it signifies is that we can control our immediate impulses and sensations when hurt or frustrated, but if we control our thoughts we can control her impulses.Put your mental health firstPeace over power:  Many times you can't win, and it doesn't matter if you lose.  It's not worth the effort to put up a fight.  They are not doing it to you; they're just doing it! – Much is not done on purposeNot a 911  Not everything is an emergency,.Be Group minded Anger at GodForgiveness  Fr. Spitzer Angry with God? Here's Fr. Spitzer's Advice on How to Overcome Anger God understands your anger.  Don't dwell on it.  Don't go there.   Choose instead to: Three step process in the YouTube clip Angry with God:   Stop comparing to the way you once were.   Stop comparing yourself to others.   Stop having expectations for your suffering.   Offer it up.  Stop the questioning.   Saints' behaviors  Meg Hunter-Kilmer - published on 09/28/17Aleteia September 28, 2017, What We Probably Don't Know about St. Jerome Is Just What We Need to Know St. Jerome was known to carry around a stone that he would hit himself with every time he lost his temper.     If these are helpful to you, great.  I don't want to put up roadblocks.  Might be helpful to many people.   As a Catholic psychologist, I am not comfortable recommending any of these Catholic sources Very simplistic view of psychology, and no consideration of neurology, traumatology,  Confusion about the causal chain in anger.  Where anger fits in a sequence of events  Little genuine interest in anger.  Anger is something to essentially get rid of.   Very focused on the will and will training -- naïve assumptions about sympathetic arousal.  And they don't get that anger has a protective function -- to protect us against shame.  Not one of those sources connects anger to shame.  And that's the primary connection we need to understand if we want to resolve anger, not just try to shoo it away.   What are we talking about when we discuss anger -- let's get into definitions of Anger Focused on vengeance secondary to a desire -- more than an emotion.   Written discussions of anger in the western canon go back as far as fourth-century BC in Greece when the philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) argued that anger is a rational and natural reaction to being offended and thus is closely associated with reason. In the Rhetoric (1991, p. 1380) he defined anger as “a belief that we, or our friends, have been unfairly slighted, which causes in us both painful feelings and a desire or impulse for revenge.” 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia:  Anger:  The desire of vengeance. Its ethical rating depends upon the quality of the vengeance and the quantity of the passion. When these are in conformity with the prescriptions of balanced reason, anger is not a sin. It is rather a praiseworthy thing and justifiable with a proper zeal. It becomes sinful when it is sought to wreak vengeance upon one who has not deserved it, or to a greater extent than it has been deserved, or in conflict with the dispositions of law, or from an improper motive. The sin is then in a general sense mortal as being opposed to justice and charity. It may, however, be venial because the punishment aimed at is but a trifling one or because of lack of full deliberation.  Likewise, anger is sinful when there is an undue vehemence in the passion itself, whether inwardly or outwardly. Ordinarily it is then accounted a venial sin unless the excess be so great as to go counter seriously to the love of God or of one's neighbor.   CCC 2302  By recalling the commandment, "You shall not kill," our Lord asked for peace of heart and denounced murderous anger and hatred as immoral. Anger is a desire for revenge. "To desire vengeance in order to do evil to someone who should be punished is illicit," but it is praiseworthy to impose restitution "to correct vices and maintain justice." If anger reaches the point of a deliberate desire to kill or seriously wound a neighbor, it is gravely against charity; it is a mortal sin. The Lord says, "Everyone who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment."  Contradiction that aggression (or vengeance) and anger have to go together  Lot of research to tease about anger and aggression: Ephesians 4:26:  Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger   APA Dictionary of Psychology: an emotion characterized by tension and hostility arising from frustration, real or imagined injury by another, or perceived injustice. It can manifest itself in behaviors designed to remove the object of the anger (e.g., determined action) or behaviors designed merely to express the emotion (e.g., swearing). Anger is distinct from, but a significant activator of, aggression, which is behavior intended to harm someone or something. Despite their mutually influential relationship, anger is neither necessary nor sufficient for aggression to occur.  Psychologist Paul Ekman. (1999). Basic emotions. In T. Dalgleish & M. J. Power (Eds.), Handbook of cognition and emotion (pp. 45–60). John Wiley & Sons Ltd  Due to its distinct and widely recognizable pattern of face expression, anger has always been included in the repertoire of basic emotions.   Benefits of Anger  Farzaneh Pahlavan Multiple Facets of Anger: Getting Mad or Restoring Justice?  Chapter 3:  The Neurobiology of RAGE and Anger & Psychiatric Implications with a Focus on Depression Daniel J. Guerra1, Valentina Colonnello and Jaak Panksepp As a basic emotion, anger emerges early in life and has a unique adaptive function in motivating, organizing, and regulating behavior. No other emotion can match the consistency and vigor of anger in mobilizing high-level energy and sustaining goal-directed activity. Anger serves a variety of regulatory functions in physiological and psychological processes related to self-defense as well as to interpersonal and societal behaviors. Through socialization processes, it plays an important role in the development of personality and individual differences in responding to environmental challenges, which can be more or less adaptive.  (p. v).   Aristotle:  Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics: It is easy to fly into a passion – anybody can do that – but to be angry with the right person into the right extent and at the right time and with the right object in the right way – that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it  In themselves passions are neither good nor evil. They are morally qualified only to the extent that they effectively engage reason and will….It belongs to the perfection of the moral or human good that the passions be governed by reason. CCC 1767  CCMMP: Catholic-Christian Meta-Model of the Person  DMU Paul Vitz, William Nordling, Paul Craig Titus.    p. (294)  to remain in the virtuous middle ground requires being disposed to a righteous anger that will stand up to injustice, and use a good measure of anger in ways that are corrective of the evil, preventive of further injustice, and indicative of a balance to mean between extremes. Emotions are good when, as reactions antecedent to reasoning, they make us conscious of reality and prepare us for a more complete reaction and moral action. Emotion and choice then serve moral flourishing (e.g., when we have an appropriate spontaneous reaction of anger at injustice). Second, emotions are good as felt reactions that also follow the intellectual evaluation of the situation. Emotions can be expressive of rational decisions. Emotions can thus participate in our life of reason and will (Gondreau, 2013). For example, when we choose to rectify and injustice, a balanced expression of anger can help us to act decisively will being restrained enough that we do not overreact. Through a righteous or just expression of anger, we entered rectify injustice, will finding a just and rational mean between excessively weak or exceedingly strong emotional displays. (p. 650). Emotions are viewed as informing people about their cares and concerns. To prepare the body for action, directing our thoughts to ways that will appropriately address the issues at hand. They can signal and manipulate other people in ways that suit the person's emotional needs (Parrott, 2001). Being disconnected from emotional experience, therefore, means being cut off from adaptive information (Pos et al., 2003). (pp. 650-651). Digression into justification of secular sources Question may arise, "OK, Dr. Peter, as you already noted, anger has been recognized for a long time, going all the way back to Aristotle and way before that in Sacred Scripture.  You emphasize that you are a Catholic psychologist, so why are you even looking at these secular sources like the American Psychological Association? There is a lot about anger in Scripture, in the Church Fathers and the saints about anger in the spiritual life.   Discalced Carmelite Abbott Marc Foley in his excellent book The Context of Holiness: Psychological and Spiritual Reflections on the Life of St. Therese of Lisieux "One…misconception is that the spiritual life is an encapsulated sphere, cloistered from the realities of daily living….we have only one life composed of various dimensions.  Our emotional life, intellectual life, social life, work life, sex life, spiritual life are simple ways of speaking of the different facets of our one life.  (p. 1).  We have one life.  One life.  We don't have a spiritual life that is separate from our emotional life.  We have one life.  If we are angry, that affects our whole life.   The Church herself encourages us to look to all branches of knowledge and glean what is best from them in order to live our one life better.  From the CCC, paragraph 159  "Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason. Since the same God who reveals mysteries and infuses faith has bestowed the light of reason on the human mind, God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever contradict truth." "Consequently, methodical research in all branches of knowledge, provided it is carried out in a truly scientific manner and does not override moral laws, can never conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things of faith derive from the same God. The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them what they are." And from the Vatican II document, the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World, paragraph 62 reads:  In pastoral care, sufficient use must be made not only of theological principles, but also of the findings of the secular sciences, especially of psychology and sociology, so that the faithful may be brought to a more adequate and mature life of faith. Remember that we are embodied beings -- we are composites of a soul and a body. The 17th Century Philosopher Rene Descartes' popularized what is called mind-body dualism.  Mind-body dualism is the idea that the body and the mind operate in separate spheres, and neither can be assimilated into the other.  And that is false.  Demonstrably false in a lot of ways, be we so often assume it to be true.  We have one life.   In the last several years we are realizing just how much of our mental life and our psychological well-being is linked in various ways to our neurobiology -- the ways that our nervous systems function.  And the relationship between our embodied brain and our minds is reciprocal -- each affects the other in complex ways that we are just beginning to understand.  In other words, brain chemistry affects our emotional states.  And our emotional states and our behaviors affect brain chemistry.  It's not just our minds and it's not just our bodies and it's not just our souls -- it's all of those, all of what makes me who I am, body, mind, soul, spirit, all of it.   And since Scripture, the Early Church Fathers, the Catechism and so on are silent on neurobiology, neurochemistry, neurophysiology and so many other areas that impact our minds and our well-being, as a Catholic psychologist I am going to look elsewhere, I'm going to look into secular sources.  I just don't think it's reasonable to expect the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops or the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the Vatican to be experts in these areas -- it's not their calling, it's not their expertise.  St. John of the Cross in his  Prologue of Ascent of Mt. Carmel: "I will not rely on experience or science…[but] I will not neglect whatever possible use I can make of them.  Fr. Marc Foley, OCD : The Context of Holiness:  As St. Thomas wrote of St. Augustine's use of Platonic philosophy in the Summa: "whenever Augustine, who was imbued with the doctrines of the Platonists, found in their teaching anything consistent with the faith, he adopted it and those things which he found contrary to the faith he amended." (ST I, q. 84,a. 5) p.4 And St. Thomas himself drew on so much of Aristotle's thought in his writings, bringing it into his body of work.   Abbot Marc Foley.  In short, we should never swallow the school of thought whole; we should sift the wheat from the chaff, separate truth from falsehood. p.4 We want the best from all sources.   Emphasis on biological processes:   From Heidi Crockett Anger Management with Interpersonal Neurobiology  Discussed Interpersonal Neurobiology at length in  Episode 92 of this podcast Understanding and Healing your Mind through IPNB In interpersonal neurobiology, anger as an emotion is viewed from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience. And cognitive neuroscience states that cognition and emotion are dynamically combined with physical arousal. When anger is induced as an emotion in humans, it can unconsciously affect physiological and neural resources. Affective states of anger are subsequently expressed in the brain as well as the body, and these neural and physiological changes can influence the cognitive processes. Many studies and resources have been expended on studying the emotions of happiness, sadness, and fear, which align with psychopathological states of hypomania, depression, and anxiety. Kathy Steele, Suzette Boon, Onno van der Hart:  Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Practical, Integrative Approach:  Anger is an affect to derived from activation of the sympathetic nervous system, geared to energize the body for maximum effort to fend off perceived danger. Psychologically, it protects from awareness of vulnerability and lack of control, and therefore from shame. And fight mode, we are all primed to perceive cues of danger rather than cues of safety and relational connection. In such a heightened state of arousal, it is easy to misunderstand the intentions of others. (p.332). Polyvagal theory and anger  A critical period for experience-dependent development of the feelings of safety during early infancy: A polyvagal perspective on anger and psychometric tools to assess perceived safety  Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience July 2022 article   Andrea Poli, Angelo Gemignani, Carlo Chiorri and Mario Miccoli Brief primer here on some neurology.  Don't worry.  I will keep it simple.   Neurons are specialized cells that receive and send signals to other cells through fragile and thin cellular extensions called axons. Myelination:   a membrane or a sheath around the axons on neurons.   Myelinated axons often have a larger diameter Myelinated axons are insulated Myelination allows for much faster transmission of electric impulses Presence of safety during the critical period (first year of life).   Decreased unmyelinated/myelinated cardioinhibitory fibers ratio in adulthood Ventral Vagal complex is able to have a greater impact on reducing the Sympathetic Nervous System arousal -- decreasing anger  VVC is able to have a greater impact on reducing Dorsal Vagal Complex fear and shutdown responses -- the freeze response.   Greater capacity for self-regulation.   Absence of safety during the critical period  Increased unmyelinated/myelinated cardioinhibitory fibers ratio in adulthood Ventral Vagal complex has a lesser impact on reducing the Sympathetic Nervous System arousal -- less able to decrease sympathetic arousal, including anger  VVC has a lesser impact on reducing Dorsal Vagal Complex fear and shutdown responses -- less able to reduce the freeze response.   Less capacity for self-regulation.   Dampened VVC activity reduces the capacity of adaptive inhibition of SNS and DVC (Dorsal Vagal Complex), and emotional self-regulation. Hence, environmental detection of unsafety cues may preferentially trigger SNS-mediated anger in order to avoid DVC-mediated immobilization with fear. Young children exposed to five or more significant adverse experiences in the first three years of childhood face a 76% likelihood of having one or more delays in their language, emotional or brain development. (6) As the number of traumatic events experienced during childhood increases, the risk for the following health problems in adulthood increases: depression; alcoholism; drug abuse; suicide attempts; heart and liver diseases; pregnancy problems; high stress; uncontrollable anger; and family, financial, and job problems. (6) 7 ways childhood adversity changes a child's brain Donna Jackson Nakazawa Acestoohigh.com website September 8, 2016 Epigenetic Shifts  gene methylation, in which small chemical markers, or methyl groups, adhere to the genes involved in regulating our stress response, and prevent these genes from doing their jobs.  Size and Shape of the Brain stress releases a hormone that actually shrinks the size of the hippocampus, an area of our brain responsible for processing emotion and memory and managing stress.  Chronic neuroinflammation can lead to changes that reset the tone of the brain for life   Brain connectivity:  Dr. Ryan Herringa, neuropsychiatrist and assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, found that children and teens who'd experienced chronic childhood adversity showed weaker neural connections between the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus. Girls also displayed weaker connections between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala. The prefrontal-cortex-amygdala relationship plays an essential role in determining how emotionally reactive we're likely to be to the things that happen to us in our day-to-day life, and how likely we are to perceive these events as stressful or dangerous. Including anger.   Wiring of the brain and nervous system matter -- they matter a lot Brain activation in anger  Distinct Brain Areas involved in Anger versus Punishment during Social Interactions  Olga M. Klimecki, David Sander & Patrik Vuilleumier Scientific Reports 2018. 25 men fMRI study anger induced in an in inequality game designed to be unfair.   In the present study, we found that the intensity of experienced anger when seeing the face of the unfair other was parametrically related to activations in amygdala, STS (superior temporal sulcus), and fusiform gyrus (related to facial recognition). The STS has been shown to produce strong responses when subjects perceive stimuli in research areas that facial recognition   Farzaneh Pahlavan Multiple Facets of Anger: Getting Mad or Restoring Justice?  Chapter 3:  The Neurobiology of RAGE and Anger & Psychiatric Implications with a Focus on Depression Daniel J. Guerra1, Valentina Colonnello and Jaak Panksepp Rage emerges when specific environmental stimuli arouse the neural circuitry of the RAGE system. Even if the anger-thoughts and the related expression are modulated and regulated by higher cortico-cognitive areas, the human basic circuitry of anger is still subcortical. Since the early description of rage in decorticated cats (Dusser De Barenne, 1920) and dogs (Rothmann, 1923) and their responses to inoffensive stimuli, it was clear that the rage expression is i) dependent on subcortical areas, i.e. the ancient regions play a crucial role more than the higher neocortical regions; ii) independent of an intact cortex. p. 11  Among the higher limbic regions of this network, the medial nucleus, the basal complex, and central and lateral nuclei of the amygdala play a key role in the modulation of RAGE.  p. 1   All this happens far away from the frontal cortex in the limbic system of your brain.   Kathy Steele, Suzette Boon, Onno van der Hart:  Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Practical, Integrative Approach   Why of Chronic anger.   Anger is the primary emotion of the "fight" defense.  When (parts of) the patient become stuck in this defense, anger becomes chronic.  Thus, the first intervention is safety.  332 As long as a fight reaction remains unresolved, anger will remain chronic. (p.332).  Almost no one seems to understands that anger is a defense against fear and shame.  It's a way of trying to protect oneself.   There are several reasons that anger and hostility become chronic in dissociative patients. First, patients typically have been severely invalidated, ignored, heard, betrayed, and sometimes even tortured over extended periods of time, while helpless to stop it. In itself, this is enough to generate enormous rage in anyone as part of the naturally occurring fight defense. Second, as children, patients often had little to no help in learning how to regulate and appropriately express normal anger, much less how to cope with it. Often it was unacceptable for many patients to express any kind of anger as children, while the adults around them were uncontained and highly destructive with their anger. Others had no limit set on their angry behaviors. (p. 330). Angry dissociative parts are feared and avoided internally by most other parts, particularly those that function in daily life. After all, angry behaviors toward self and others may interfere with functioning in a variety of personal and social ways. An ongoing vicious cycle of rage and shame ensues internally: the more patients avoid their angry and destructive dissociative parts, the angry these parts become, and the more they shame other parts and are shamed by them. (p. 331). … Angry parts have a deep shame and are highly defended against the strong belief that they are very bad. Their defense is reinforced by the shame of patients that such parts of themselves even exist. These parts of the patient are terrified of attachment to the therapist and you the relationship is dangerous, mainly because they are afraid that the therapist will never accept them. (p. 331-332). Whether the anger is part of a fight response or not, it is often a secondary emotion that protects the patient from feelings of sadness, extreme powerlessness, shame, guilt, and loss. (p. 333).  (add grief) Parts of the patient that developed  controlling-punitive strategies will be angry with others to get what they need,  while those that have controlling-caregiving strategies will punish themselves for being angry or having needs. (p. 333).  This is often the case in hostile parts such as those of self-injure or encourage other parts to self-harm, prostitute themselves, abuse drugs or alcohol, or engage in other self-destructive behaviors. They are often stuck in destructive and harmful behaviors that are an "attack self" defense against shame. (p.333). Finally, the rage of the perpetrator is often an embodied experience from which patients cannot yet escape without sufficient realization and further integration. Some dissociative parts imitate perpetrators internally, repeating the family dynamics from the past with other parts in a rather literal way. (p.333). "Getting the anger out" is not really useful, as the problem is that the patient needs to learn how to effectively express anger verbally rather than physically, and in socially appropriate and contained ways, so the patient can be heard by others. It is less the fact that patients express anger, but how they do so and whether that expression allows him to remain grounded in the present, to retain important relationships, and to avoid being self-destructive. (p. 334). Expression of anger is not necessarily therapeutic in itself. It is how (parts of) the patient experience and express it that is important; whether it is within a window of tolerancex in a socially appropriate and safe. Therapist must learn when expression of anger is therapeutic and when containment of anger is more helpful. (p. 334). Working with anger an angry parts (p.335). Take the time to educate the patient as a whole about the functions of anger and angry parts. Although they may seem like "troublemakers," they can be understood as attempting to solve problems with ineffective or insufficient tools.  Encourage all parts of the patient understand, accept, and listen to angry parts, instead of avoiding them.  Make efforts to understand what provokes angry parts. There are many potential triggers.   Not direct quotes Do all parts feel the same way as the angry part?  If not, can those parts listen to and accept angry parts perspective?  Would the angry part be willing to listen to the other internal perspectives?  Invite other parts to watch and listen if possible.  Can set limits with the angry part  the angry part and all parts need to learn that healthy relationships do not include punishment, humiliation, or force  Use titration, helping the person experienced as a small amount of anger will remain grounded in the present   Parts and imitate a perpetrator often literally experience themselves in our experienced by other parts as the actual perpetrator. Thus they understandably induce fear and shame within a patient as a whole, and sometimes fearing the therapist. (p. 345). The functions of perpetrator-imitating parts are (1) protect the patient against threats of the perpetrator, which continue to be experienced as real in the present; (2) defend the patient against unbearable realizations of being helpless and powerless as a child, (3) re-enact traumatic memories from the perspective of the perpetrator, as mentalize by the child; (4) serve as a defense against shame through attacking the patient and avoiding inner experiences of shame; (5) provide an outlet for the patient's disowned sadistic and punitive tendencies; and (6) hold unbearable traumatic memories. (p. 346). Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart 2011 book  Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists Destructive expressions of anger include persistent revenge fantasies or actions, hurting self or others, "taking it out" on innocent people (or animals), or destruction of property. (p. 265).  Dissociative parts of a person that are stuck in anger may experience this feeling as vehement and overwhelming, often without words. They may have irresistible urges to act aggressively and have great difficulty thinking and reflecting on their feelings before acting. Angry parts have not learned how to experience or express anger and helpful ways. There are two types of anger dissociative parts. The first are parts that are stuck in a defensive fight mode, ready to protect you. Their anger at original injustices may be legitimate and naturally accompanies a tendency to strike out and fight, which is an essential survival strategy. However, such parts have become stuck in anger, unable to experience much else. They rigidly perceived threat and ill-will everywhere and they react with anger and aggression as their only option of response. Although these parts of you may not yet realize it, anger is often a protection against vulnerable feelings of shame, fear, hurt, despair, powerlessness, and loss. The second type of angry part may seem very much like the original perpetrator. They imitate those who hurt them in the past, and they can be experienced internally as the actual perpetrator. This experience can be particularly frightening, disorienting, and shameful. But be assured this is a very common way of dealing with being traumatized. In fact, although these parts may have some similarities to those who hurt you, they also significant differences: they are parts of you as a whole person, who is trying to cope with unresolved traumatic experiences. (p. 267)   Tips for coping with anger (p, 269 to 271) recognize how to make distinctions among the many gradations of anger, from mild irritation to rage, so that you can intervene more rapidly.  Understand your tells around anger, which may include a tight or tense feeling in your body, clenched jaw's or fists, feeling flushed or shaky, breathing heavily, heart racing, a feeling of heat, a surge of energy.  Empathize with her angry parts, recognizing they have very limited coping skills, and very limited vision. They've been shunned by other parts, left alone with their hurt, fear, shame, in isolation. This does not mean you have to accept their impulses toward inappropriate behavior  Once you start feeling some compassion toward these parts you can begin to communicate with them, listening with an intention, with curiosity to understand what lies underneath the anger  Angry parts have a strength, that they could transferred to use and more positive ways  Become more curious about why anger is happening.  Try creative and healthy nonverbal ways of expressing your anger, such as writing, drawing, painting, making a collage  Physical exercise may help as an outlet for the physical energy generated by the physiology of anger  Work on understanding your anger, by reflecting on it, rather than just experiencing it, being immersed in it. You might imagine observing yourself from a distance, and getting curious about why you feel the way you do.  Give yourself a time-out, that is, walk away from the situation if you're getting too angry. Counseling to 10, or even 200 before you say or do something you might regret later.  Calm breathing may help  Listen to each part of you, about what might help that part with anger. You can have in her conversations with parts of yourself about anger and how to express it. Small and safe ways to express anger can be negotiated that are agreeable to all parts of you  Watch safe people in your life and seal they handle their own anger. Do they accept being angry? Are they are respectful and appropriate with her anger? Are there particular strategies that they use that you could practice for yourself?  Healthy anger can get positive strength and energy. It can help you be appropriately assertive, set clear boundaries, and confront wrongs in the world. Anger can pave the way to other emotions, leading to the resolution relational conflicts.  We learn the most common triggers of your anger. Once you learn these triggers, you can be more aware when they occur and more able to prevent an automatic reaction of anger. Establish intercommunication among parts of yourself to recognize triggers and negotiate possible helpful strategies to cope with them rather than just reacting.  You can try allowing yourself to experience just a small amount of anger from another part of yourself: a drop, a teaspoon, 1% or 2%. In exchange you can share with angry parts feelings of calm and safety.  Inner safe spaces can be very helpful for childlike parts that feel terrified   My parts Feisty Part-- defends against shame -- Melancholio.   Good Boy  Challenger  Creative-distracting me.   Closing Mark your calendars.  Next Live Experience of the IIC podcast will be on Friday, January 13, 2023 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Eastern time on Zoom (repeat) -- All about Anger -- dealing with your anger.  Going beyond what books can do.  Experiential exercise.  Links to register have gone out in our emailed Wednesday Reflections.  Can get the link on the IIC landing page as well, SoulsandHearts.com/iic  December 28, 2022  Reflection at soulsandhearts.com/blog  From Rejecting to Embracing Aging Reach out to me Crisis@soulsandhearts.com  Conversation hours:  cell is 317.567.9594 conversation hours 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Eastern Time Every Tuesday and Thursday.   Resilient Catholic Community -- you do not have to be alone.   Why a deep intimate personal relationship with God our Father, Mary our Mother -- spiritual parents   By claiming our identity as beloved daughters and sons of God the Father and Mary our Mother. Identity is freely given.   How By dealing with the natural level issues we have, the human formation issues we have that have spiritual consequences.  Grace perfects nature  So many spiritual problems have their roots in the natural realm, in human formation.   If this kind of exercise is helpful to you, we have nearly 100 of them in the Resilient Catholics Community.   120 Catholics like you already on board, already on the pilgrimage -- just had 47 apply for the December 2022 cohort, excited to get to know our new applicants.   Closed December 31 -- wait list should be up soon for the June 2023 Cohort.   Get to know your own parts Get to love your own parts If interested, contact me.   Crisis@soulsandhearts.com 317.567.9594 conversation hours 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Eastern Time Every Tuesday and Thursday.    

In part 2 of our true crime exploration of the death of Lorie Lance, the podcast will discuss what happened after Claude Garrett was convicted of first-degree murder. The main article guiding my discussion comes from a report by Liliana Segura on The Intercept, entitled "Playing with Fire: How Junk Science Sent Claude Garrett to Prison for Life."  Links: The Music City Murder Patreon My new novel, Not Dark Yet, on Amazon Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts  

70% of our prospective clients here at Avenue 7 Media always ask us two questions: How can we get them more sales and get them more product reviews?Amazon reviews have become so important in driving sales that some sellers are desperate to get them through any means.This has led to the big challenge of fake reviews. It's not uncommon to see a brand with 900 reviews after selling just 100 orders in 30 days. Do the math.Honest businesses selling great products and getting legitimate reviews are left wondering what else they should do to compete.Amazon has tried tackling this problem with its TOS and other means, but it remains a problem. The Federal Trade Commission has stepped in and is considering new rules regarding fake online reviews.In this episode, Shannon and I talk about Amazon product reviews, the challenges for brands and sellers to get legitimate product reviews, how Amazon is vetting (or not vetting) those reviews properly, and what the FTC is doing about product review manipulation.Key Takeaways- Intro (00:00)- Product reviews are the heartbeat of Amazon (01:25)- Why reviews are so important (02:10)- Product Reviews vs. product ratings (04:15)- The can of worms that is the Amazon Vine Program (07:15)- Average ratings and reviews per every 100 products (11:35)- How sellers should ask for reviews (17:36)- TOS-compliant ways to get positive reviews (21:50)- Why you shouldn't mess around with reviews (32:22)- Episode wrap-up (41:22) Additional resources:- Schedule a FREE consultation with the Ave7 team- Grab the FREE Amazon Seller Central Checklist- Get the book “The Amazon Jungle” book by Jason Boyce- Learn more about Avenue 7 Media----Day 2 Podcast has a goal of helping Amazon sellers learn how to launch, grow and protect their brand on the world's largest online marketplace (and beyond).Follow us on your favorite podcast platform so you never miss an episode!

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"The Rings of Power" Review: Episode 209 Did Jeff Bezos and Amazon forge the one fantasy streaming show to rule them all or did the Mouth of Sauron bite off more than it could chew? Find out as we talk the first 2 episodes of the "Lord of the Rings" inspired debut of Amazon's "The Rings of Power" on Normies Like Us! ! Insta @NormiesLikeUs https://www.instagram.com/normieslikeus/ @jacob https://www.instagram.com/jacob/ @JoeHasInsta https://www.instagram.com/joehasinsta/ @MikeHasInsta https://www.instagram.com/mikehasinsta/

There are many benefits to using neutrals in your home and still show off your personal style!  Even if you love color and pattern with trendy or classic pieces, you can still have some items remain neutral for versatility and sustainability. Having a good foundation of neutrals and periodically reworking the design of your rooms will keep you from having to do a complete overhaul if your style changes.    Highlights from this episode: (02:54) When stuffed animal overload is your life (10:07) Creating a sustainable space (12:26) How to personalize a neutral bedroom (16:27) Neutral is budget-friendly (21:19) Redecorating CAN be affordable   Mentioned on this episode: Ep 1: The 3 E's Philosophy Ep 7: The Essential Purge Ep 36: Growing Up Organized with Isabelle Killian Ep 122: Have a Purge Party Ep 124: When & What to Paint   I hope this episode inspires you to consider styling with some neutrals in your space like furniture, containers, shelving, paint, or bedding to save you time and money when you get the urge to redo a room!  Ready to feel the peace and freedom that comes from getting organized without the stress and overwhelm? Keep it simple with my FREE 3 E's Checklist you can download now to move your projects forward quickly and efficiently! Just fill in your name and email address and the checklist will come straight to your inbox.   Big news: My book is NOW AVAILABLE on Amazon!  If you got it already thank you so much for making it an instant BESTSELLER in multiple categories and #1 in New Releases!    Search: I'VE GOT YOU, GIRLFRIEND! Why Getting Organized & Living This Mom Life is NOT a Solo Mission   It would mean the world to me if you could write an Amazon REVIEW and pick up a copy (or two)! Thank you so much for your support.    The Mom's Organization Motivation YouTube Channel is LIVE!!! SUBSCRIBE now with this link and be sure to hit the little bell to be notified when the next video airs every Thursday! For more resources to organize and style your busy life in 3 simple steps, checkout EverythingWithStyle.com, listen to my FREE Masterclass, and connect with me on Instagram @everythingwithstylemom for some organization motivation!

If you want to enjoy your backyard alone or with guests, here are several ways you can get it ready for every season! With a family reunion starting in a week, I did some fast organizing and styling for my parents in their awesome backyard that was in need of an update.  We stuck to the 3 E's Philosophy: Essential- Purge the clutter Enhancement- Donate/Sell unwanted items Extra- Style with proper organizers and furniture    Highlights from this episode: (02:18) Adding some extra privacy to your backyard (05:37) Inside storage for outside fun (11:41) Backyard seating (14:49) Affordable exterior design inspiration (20:07) Water feature or no water feature? (23:00) Adequate seating for outside events   Mentioned on this episode: Ep 1: The 3 E's Philosophy  Ep 124: When & What to Paint Ep 125: Closet Upgrade with Elfa Shelving Ep 126: Sunroom Makeover   Home Depot: Hampton Bay String Lights Flowers/plants   At Home: Chairs and table Lanterns   Amazon: Cushioned storage benches Outdoor Lumbar pillows (blue palm leaf pattern) Outdoor Inflatable ottomans (blue palm leaf) Navy Umbrellas with LED solar lights   I hope this episode inspires you to create a backyard space you love and serves you and your friends and family well!   Ready to feel the peace and freedom that comes from getting organized without the stress and overwhelm? Keep it simple with my FREE 3 E's Checklist you can download now to move your projects forward quickly and efficiently! Just fill in your name and email address and the checklist will come straight to your inbox.   Big news: My book is NOW AVAILABLE on Amazon!  If you got it already thank you so much for making it an instant BESTSELLER in multiple categories and #1 in New Releases!    Search: I'VE GOT YOU, GIRLFRIEND! Why Getting Organized & Living This Mom Life is NOT a Solo Mission   It would mean the world to me if you could write an Amazon REVIEW and pick up a copy (or two)! Thank you so much for your support.    The Mom's Organization Motivation YouTube Channel is LIVE!!! SUBSCRIBE now with this link and be sure to hit the little bell to be notified when the next video airs every Thursday!    For more resources to organize and style your busy life in 3 simple steps, checkout EverythingWithStyle.com, listen to my FREE Masterclass, and connect with me on Instagram @everythingwithstylemom for some organization motivation!

If you've got a sunroom or any “fun room” in your home, this is the place to push boundaries and show your personality and style! This space can accomplish both form and function with the help of the proper organizers, paint, plants, mirrors, art, activities, flooring, helpful hooks, and decorative accessories! This episode was inspired by my parents' sunroom and how we used what they had and gave it a bit of a makeover.    Highlights from this episode: (02:14) When the caffeine hits, it's good (07:42) Putting the sun in sunroom (11:51) Using mirrors to transform a room (14:40) The 3-drawer organizer (19:35) Form and function (23:07) Find furniture to maximize your space (25:05) Carts and hooks (30:43) Take a look at your flooring   Mentioned on this episode: Ep 1: The 3 E's Philosophy  Ep 7: The Essential Purge  Ep 124: When & What to Paint   Upcoming  Ep 127: Backyard Fit for Entertaining Instagram Reels @everythingwithstylemom   I hope this episode inspires you to take chances in this space and be sure to keep clutter out so it can shine and serve you well!    Ready to feel the peace and freedom that comes from getting organized without the stress and overwhelm? Keep it simple with my FREE 3 E's Checklist you can download now to move your projects forward quickly and efficiently! Just fill in your name and email address and the checklist will come straight to your inbox.   Big news: My book is NOW AVAILABLE on Amazon!  If you got it already thank you so much for making it an instant BESTSELLER in multiple categories and #1 in New Releases!    Search: I'VE GOT YOU, GIRLFRIEND! Why Getting Organized & Living This Mom Life is NOT a Solo Mission   It would mean the world to me if you could write an Amazon REVIEW and pick up a copy (or two)! Thank you so much for your support.    The Mom's Organization Motivation YouTube Channel is LIVE!!! SUBSCRIBE now with this link and be sure to hit the little bell to be notified when the next video airs every Thursday!    For more resources to organize and style your busy life in 3 simple steps, checkout EverythingWithStyle.com, listen to my FREE Masterclass, and connect with me on Instagram @everythingwithstylemom for some organization motivation!

If it's time for a closet redo, here's some inspo from my Dad's with an assist from The Container Store's Elfa shelving system. I landed in Tennessee this summer and got the news that Dad's closet shelves had collapsed! I got straight to work on rescuing it from an overflowing wardrobe, too many shoes, and keepsakes that were stashed deep beneath the crashed hanging rod and wire rack.  The new custom design with easy-to-mount shelving was a great solution for hanging his dressy and casual clothes, plus storing his dress shoes, sneakers, and accessories after a good purge of the items he was no longer wearing.    Highlights from this episode: (01:01) Having fun in my Dad's closet (05:03) 3 simple steps (08:55) Measure twice, go shopping once (13:12) Customize your shelving (17:00) How to hang high shelves and keep it functional   Mentioned on this episode: Ep 1: The 3 E's Philosophy Ep 122: Have a Purge Party Ep 124: When & What to Paint  I hope this episode inspires you to rework your closet if the current shelving and hanging situation is not serving you well.    Ready to feel the peace and freedom that comes from getting organized without the stress and overwhelm? Keep it simple with my FREE 3 E's Checklist you can download now to move your projects forward quickly and efficiently! Just fill in your name and email address and the checklist will come straight to your inbox.   Big news: My book is NOW AVAILABLE on Amazon!  If you got it already thank you so much for making it an instant BESTSELLER in multiple categories and #1 in New Releases!    Search: I'VE GOT YOU, GIRLFRIEND! Why Getting Organized & Living This Mom Life is NOT a Solo Mission   It would mean the world to me if you could write an Amazon REVIEW and pick up a copy (or two)! Thank you so much for your support.    The Mom's Organization Motivation YouTube Channel is LIVE!!! SUBSCRIBE now with this link and be sure to hit the little bell to be notified when the next video airs every Thursday!    For more resources to organize and style your busy life in 3 simple steps, checkout EverythingWithStyle.com, listen to my FREE Masterclass, and connect with me on Instagram @everythingwithstylemom for some organization motivation!

Need to bring some items in your home back to life, but not sure how?  You've probably heard me say, “You've got to keep it simple or it just won't get done.” So on this episode I'm talking about lots of things that can be repainted and revived with minimal effort like furniture, walls, fireplaces, hardware, decor, and even floors!  Don't say goodbye to your stuff; give it a fresh coat of paint!   Highlights from this episode: (00:55) Doing what I love in Tennessee (07:55) Choosing the right paint for your surface (10:58) Keep your inner perfectionist at bay (12:54) Give your furniture a makeover with a paint job (20:39) Go to your local store and ask for help (23:36) Making your fireplace look hot (29:03) Inspiration from movies   Mentioned on this episode: Ep 37: Repurpose and Reimagine Your Stuff Ep 60: Ask For Help  Ep 69: Hiring a Handyman    Sherwin Williams Paint Safe Haven movie   I hope this episode inspires you to save your furniture, home decor, or the state of your walls by updating the paint color. Don't let sanding and priming and sealing hold you back if your time and money is a factor. Take a stab at it and leave perfection to the experts!  Ready to feel the peace and freedom that comes from getting organized without the stress and overwhelm? Keep it simple with my FREE 3 E's Checklist you can download now to move your projects forward quickly and efficiently! Just fill in your name and email address and the checklist will come straight to your inbox.   Big news: My book is NOW AVAILABLE on Amazon!  If you got it already thank you so much for making it an instant BESTSELLER in multiple categories and #1 in New Releases!    Search: I'VE GOT YOU, GIRLFRIEND! Why Getting Organized & Living This Mom Life is NOT a Solo Mission   It would mean the world to me if you could write an Amazon REVIEW and pick up a copy (or two)! Thank you so much for your support.    The Mom's Organization Motivation YouTube Channel is LIVE!!! SUBSCRIBE now with this link and be sure to hit the little bell to be notified when the next video airs every Thursday! For more resources to organize and style your busy life in 3 simple steps, checkout EverythingWithStyle.com, listen to my FREE Masterclass, and connect with me on Instagram @everythingwithstylemom for some organization motivation!

After lots of trips with the family I've learned a few things to do ahead of time for easier travels.  We're heading off to Tennessee and the Bahamas this summer. Here's how I'm packing and preparing things at home before we go.    Highlights from this episode: (01:29) The big questions for travel prep (02:55) Always leave extra room in your luggage (06:50) How to plan for the airport (10:24) Travel outfit prep (12:51) Get ahead of the laundry - your future self will thank you!   Mentioned on this episode: divvyup.com    I hope this episode offers helpful suggestions for the prep ahead so your trip runs smoothly and your arrival back home is as stress-free as possible.   Ready to feel the peace and freedom that comes from getting organized without the stress and overwhelm? Keep it simple with my FREE 3 E's Checklist you can download now to move your projects forward quickly and efficiently! Just fill in your name and email address and the checklist will come straight to your inbox.   Big news: My book is NOW AVAILABLE on Amazon!  If you got it already thank you so much for making it an instant BESTSELLER in multiple categories and #1 in New Releases!    Search: I'VE GOT YOU, GIRLFRIEND! Why Getting Organized & Living This Mom Life is NOT a Solo Mission   It would mean the world to me if you could write an Amazon REVIEW and pick up a copy (or two)! Thank you so much for your support.    The Mom's Organization Motivation YouTube Channel is LIVE!!! SUBSCRIBE now with this link and be sure to hit the little bell to be notified when the next video airs every Thursday!  For more resources to organize and style your busy life in 3 simple steps, checkout EverythingWithStyle.com, listen to my FREE Masterclass, and connect with me on Instagram @everythingwithstylemom for some organization motivation!

Don't let physical clutter turn into mental clutter. It's time to have a purge party!  Grab a bag with handles, turn on some music or invite a friend over, and start getting rid of items you aren't using or loving anymore.  When you do regular purges and keep it simple there's not so much dread and stress around it. So set a timer and get to it! It's time to clear the clutter to see the blessings.    Highlights from this episode: (03:29) Nobody's looking for perfect (06:56) Don't put it in your trunk! (10:32) How to get your kids involved (15:24) The 1% rule will help you purge (20:02) Your clutter is someone else's treasure   Mentioned on this episode: Ep 1: The 3 E's Philosophy  Ep 7: The Essential Purge  Ep 22: A Successful Yard Sale Ep 98: The 1% Rule Ep 121: Surviving Not Thriving   Grab the Successful Yard Sale PDF when you register for the Online Home Course!    I hope this episode encourages you to do a regular purge of stuff you don't need so clutter doesn't become a source of stress or frustration. Keep it light and simple by enlisting the help of your family or friends. You may be surprised at how easy and even fun it can be. Don't forget to celebrate your efforts when you're done! Ready to feel the peace and freedom that comes from getting organized without the stress and overwhelm? Keep it simple with my FREE 3 E's Checklist you can download now to move your projects forward quickly and efficiently! Just fill in your name and email address and the checklist will come straight to your inbox.   Big news: My book is NOW AVAILABLE on Amazon!  If you got it already thank you so much for making it an instant BESTSELLER in multiple categories and #1 in New Releases!    Search: I'VE GOT YOU, GIRLFRIEND! Why Getting Organized & Living This Mom Life is NOT a Solo Mission   It would mean the world to me if you could write an Amazon REVIEW and pick up a copy (or two)! Thank you so much for your support.    The Mom's Organization Motivation YouTube Channel is LIVE!!! SUBSCRIBE now with this link and be sure to hit the little bell to be notified when the next video airs every Thursday!    I'm fully booked for in-home services, but I do offer Virtual Organizing Sessions! We'll make a plan to accomplish your organization goals in record time. I'll be with you every step of the way.   For more resources to organize and style your busy life in 3 simple steps, checkout EverythingWithStyle.com, listen to my FREE Masterclass, and connect with me on Instagram @everythingwithstylemom for some organization motivation!

It's time to stop judging ourselves and normalize the struggles.  When the world experienced quarantining & social distancing, our mental health became a more acceptable topic to discuss. There were silver linings during that time, but there were also days it may have felt more like surviving not thriving. Now that we are all learning to deal with the aftermath of a global pandemic, it's even more important to acknowledge the seasons of struggle and find ways to get to the other side of it.  I've learned to manage expectations of what a good life looks like. It won't be perfect. I thank God for the tough times so I can appreciate the good ones even more.    Highlights from this episode: (00:53) Reflections post-pandemic (05:00) Let's have a heart to heart (08:37) Practicing gratitude (11:07) Surround yourself with the right people (15:48) You do not need the perfect life to thrive   Mentioned on this episode: Ep 60: Ask For Help   Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe    I hope this episode helps ease the pressure we put on ourselves. Remember, it's okay to not be okay. You aren't alone. Give yourself grace and ask for help.    Ready to feel the peace and freedom that comes from getting organized without the stress and overwhelm? Keep it simple with my FREE 3 E's Checklist you can download now to move your projects forward quickly and efficiently! Just fill in your name and email address and the checklist will come straight to your inbox.   Big news: My book is NOW AVAILABLE on Amazon!  If you got it already thank you so much for making it an instant BESTSELLER in multiple categories and #1 in New Releases!    Search: I'VE GOT YOU, GIRLFRIEND! Why Getting Organized & Living This Mom Life is NOT a Solo Mission   It would mean the world to me if you could write an Amazon REVIEW and pick up a copy (or two)! Thank you so much for your support.    The Mom's Organization Motivation YouTube Channel is LIVE!!! SUBSCRIBE now with this link and be sure to hit the little bell to be notified when the next video airs every Thursday!  I'm fully booked for in-home services, but I do offer Virtual Organizing Sessions! We'll make a plan to accomplish your organization goals in record time. I'll be with you every step of the way. For more resources to organize and style your busy life in 3 simple steps, checkout EverythingWithStyle.com, listen to my FREE Masterclass, and connect with me on Instagram @everythingwithstylemom for some organization motivation!

I got to do some shopping for myself at The Container Store and I'm sharing my new faves!  I'm usually picking up items for my clients so it was fun to get some things we needed, plus travel surprises for the kids.  The Container Store is my happy place, but if it feels overwhelming for you sometimes, I'm recommending these 3 things to keep in mind. Go with a plan. Take measurements and photos.  Shop with a friend/ask an associate.   Highlights from this episode:  (03:21) Always go with a plan (05:52) Everyone needs some adhesive removal spray (09:08) The Lug Nap Sac Blanket & Pillow (13:20) Always take measurements with you! (18:22) Go with a friend   Mentioned on this episode: Ep 1: The 3 E's Philosophy  Ep 4: The Unjunky Junk Drawer How to Organize Your Junk Drawer on YouTube  Ep 105: The Dead Zone    containerstore.com   I hope this episode helps you find what you need quickly and suggests some new items you might want to try.  Ready to feel the peace and freedom that comes from getting organized without the stress and overwhelm? Keep it simple with my FREE 3 E's Checklist you can download now to move your projects forward quickly and efficiently! Just fill in your name and email address and the checklist will come straight to your inbox.   Big news: My book is NOW AVAILABLE on Amazon!  If you got it already thank you so much for making it an instant BESTSELLER in multiple categories and #1 in New Releases!   Search: I'VE GOT YOU, GIRLFRIEND! Why Getting Organized & Living This Mom Life is NOT a Solo Mission   It would mean the world to me if you could write an Amazon REVIEW and pick up a copy (or two)! Thank you so much for your support. The Mom's Organization Motivation YouTube Channel is LIVE!!! SUBSCRIBE now with this link and be sure to hit the little bell to be notified when the next video airs every Thursday! For more resources to organize and style your busy life in 3 simple steps, checkout EverythingWithStyle.com, listen to my FREE Masterclass, and connect with me on Instagram @everythingwithstylemom for some organization motivation!

TW/CW at the 14:21 mark, we start to discuss current events involving violent intruders and armed assailants.This week we catch up after a week a part and recount Jeri's New York adventure before Ciara busts out the amazon reviews for us to guess. We got too excited about our summer drinks and unintentionally went to hammy town - apologies in advance for the slop. Stay tuned for a special apology as well from Ciara for her thoughts about JC. The rose-colored glasses are off and things are looking a little dirty...Amazon Reviews found on Ranker.com